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The Geography of Names
Author | : Gwilym Lucas Eades |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2020-09-30 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0367668203 |
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This book examines geographical names, place-names, and toponymy from philosophical and cultural evolutionary perspectives. Geographical name-tracking-networks (Geo-NTNs) are posited as tools for tracking names through time and across space, and for making sense of how names evolve both temporally and spatially. Examples from North and South American indigenous groups, the Canadian arctic, Wales, England, and the Middle East are brought into a theoretical framework for making sense of aspects of place-naming practices, beliefs, and systems. New geographical tools such as geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS) are demonstrated to be important in the production and maintenance of robust networks for keeping names and their associated meanings viable in a rapidly changing world where place-naming is being taken up increasingly in social media and other new mapping platforms. The Geography of Names makes the case that geographical names are transmitted memetically (i.e. as cultural units, or memes) through what Saul Kripke called communication chains. Combining insights from Kripke with views of later Wittgenstein on language and names as being inherently spatial, the present work advances theories of both these thinkers into an explicitly geographical inquiry that advances philosophical and practical aspects of naming, language, and mapping.
The Geography of Names
Author | : Gwilym Lucas Eades |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781317504580 |
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This book examines geographical names, place-names, and toponymy from philosophical and cultural evolutionary perspectives. Geographical name-tracking-networks (Geo-NTNs) are posited as tools for tracking names through time and across space, and for making sense of how names evolve both temporally and spatially. Examples from North and South American indigenous groups, the Canadian arctic, Wales, England, and the Middle East are brought into a theoretical framework for making sense of aspects of place-naming practices, beliefs, and systems. New geographical tools such as geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS) are demonstrated to be important in the production and maintenance of robust networks for keeping names and their associated meanings viable in a rapidly changing world where place-naming is being taken up increasingly in social media and other new mapping platforms. The Geography of Names makes the case that geographical names are transmitted memetically (i.e. as cultural units, or memes) through what Saul Kripke called communication chains. Combining insights from Kripke with views of later Wittgenstein on language and names as being inherently spatial, the present work advances theories of both these thinkers into an explicitly geographical inquiry that advances philosophical and practical aspects of naming, language, and mapping.
The Rendering of Geographical Names
Author | : Marcel Aurousseau |
Publsiher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : UOM:49015000334418 |
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Nooksack Place Names
Author | : Allan Richardson,Brent Galloway |
Publsiher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2011-08-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780774820486 |
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Place names can lead us on fascinating journeys into other cultures. They convey a people’s relationship to the land, their sense of place. For indigenous peoples, place names can also be central to the revival of endangered languages. This book takes readers on an exciting voyage into the history, language, and culture of the Nooksack Tribe of Washington State and southern British Columbia. Allan Richardson and Brent Galloway trace the richness and strength of the Nooksack people’s connection to the land by documenting more than 150 places named by elders and mentioned in key historical texts. Descriptions of Nooksack history and naming patterns – combined with maps, photographs, and detailed linguistic analyses – give life to a nearly extinct language and illuminate the intertwined relationships of place, culture, language, and identity.
Local Etymology
Author | : Richard Stephen Charnock |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : UOM:39015050687121 |
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Belgium Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names
Author | : United States. Office of Geography |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Belgium |
ISBN | : PSU:000015194299 |
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Switzerland
Author | : United States. Office of Geography |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Names, Geographical |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105032686581 |
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