Книга описывает семантические аспекты винной терминологии. Описано происхождение основных винных терминов, их значение. This book is about wine talk and wine words. Wine talk provides a rich corpus to work with since it occurs naturally in many settings — from convivial dinner party conversations to critical discussion and evaluation by connoisseurs to published research by enologists and other professional scientists. I use this linguistic domain to explore problems of lexical meaning, denotation, semantic extension, and a variety of communicative and social functions that are served by language.
