Catégorisation sur le concept de gras (et de volume) dans les vins

2010

The minerality of wine: which status for the lexeme in which situations ?

2014

International audience; This paper aims at discussing the meaning, the relevance, and the status of the lexeme minerality in consumers’ and wine professionals’ discourses within the French-speaking world. It takes as a starting point the obvious role played by such a lexeme in wine tasting notes, in prescriptive texts, and in the marketing sector. Following previous studies [1]-[2] that have shown the instability of the notion for many speakers —including wine professionals— the discussion will focus on the status of this so-called term for each target group.The study is based on the analysis of two sub-corpora collected through a questionnaire addressed on the one hand to consumers and on …