New directions in linguistic geography : exploring articulations of space / / edited by Greg Niedt

• Pubblicazione: Gateway East, Singapore : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (363 pages)
• Disciplina: 409
• Soggetto topico: Linguistic geography
• Persona (resp. second.): NiedtGreg
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- Interdisciplinary Background -- The Purpose of this Book -- Summary of Chapters -- Future Directions -- References -- Part I: Reconceptualizing the Landscape -- 2: Southeast Asian Island City-State, Singapore: Multi-Scalar Spatial Fictions and the Hinterland within -- Geographic Storytelling, Embedded Deictic/Social Fields, Spatial Fictions -- Singapore's Raciolinguistic Situation -- Southeast Asian Island City-State, Singapore -- Region -- Island -- City -- Nation/State -- Balik Kampung and Geographic Stories of the Hinterland within -- Region -- Island -- City -- Nation/State -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: The Geographic Sides of Small-Scale Multilingualism: New Challenges in Linguistic Cartography -- Introduction -- Multilingualism in Linguistic Geography -- A Terminological Problem: The Three Distinct Senses of "Multilingualism" -- Representing Linguistic Diversity in (Urban) Space -- Representing Societal Multilingualism in Space -- Problems of Superposition -- Representation of Code-Function and Domain-Code Associations -- Representing Individual Multilingualism in Space -- Diglossic and Non-diglossic Environments -- Lower Fungom -- Views from/of Small-Scale Multilingualism -- Language Location from a Small-Scale Multilingualism Perspective -- Representing Small-Scale Multilingualism -- Affective Maps of Multilingual Individuals -- Conclusions -- References -- 4: Border Texts: Border-Crossing Narratives and Local Myths in the Russian-Chinese Border Areas of Russia -- Introduction -- The Russian-Chinese Border Area, its Past and Present -- Studying Border Texts: Methods and Data -- Mythologizing the Border -- Alienating the Border -- Domesticating the Border -- Instead of Conclusions: The Closed Border -- References. ; Part II: Decolonize This Space -- 5: Nā Wahi Pana I Hoʻonalowale ʻIa…Ā Loaʻa Hou: Hawaiian Place Name Loss and Recovery in "Paradise" -- Waikīkī's History -- Act 61: The Legislation that Enabled Change -- Remaking through Reclamation -- The Current and Future Landscapes -- Conclusion -- References -- 6: Place Names and their Places: Considering Layers of Language, Landscape, and Relief -- Introduction -- Toponymy and Beyond: The Study of Place Names and their Meanings -- Indigenous Languages in the Landscape: Endangerment and Revitalization -- Settler Colonialist Place Naming: Replacing, Eroding, and Distorting -- Names that Exist Out of Time and Place -- Generalization -- Placelessness and Dislocation -- Settler Legibility -- Place Name Restorations and Liberatory Practices of Repair -- Place Names and Liberatory Practices of Repair -- The Practice of Place Name Restoration: A Guiding Ethos -- Conclusion -- References -- 7: "Often Confused as": Contestations of Colonial Place Making in the Yukon Territory, Canada -- Introduction -- A Brief Colonial Contact Overview -- Yukon Land Claims -- Struggles over Naming Places -- Place Making through Stories -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Speaking of the Environment -- 8: What Role Does Language Play in Conserving Forests and Culture? Multi-lingual Ethnobotanical Booklets in the African Savanna -- Introduction -- Local Language Retention and Celebration -- Local Language and Conservation -- Language Weakening -- Language Retention in Ethnobotany -- Tanzania -- Study Site and Methods -- Study Site -- Methods -- Booklets and Intergenerational Transmission -- Product and Process -- Intergenerational Transference -- Importance and Outreach -- Further Directions -- Conclusion -- References -- 9: "Trolls Had Been Moving Your Tongues:" Language, Landscape, and Folklore in Iceland -- Introduction. ; Theoretical Framework -- Methodology -- Discourse Analysis -- Selection of Literature -- Definitions -- Results and Discussion -- Emplacement Through Nomenclature -- Moral Geography -- Taboos and Consequences -- Identity and Dis-identity -- Filling up the Land: The Origin of Elves -- Non-normativity -- Directions of Fit -- Conclusions -- References -- Part IV: Grassroots Linguistic Geography -- 10: Toponymic Ambiguity and Plural Toponymies on Private Property -- Toponymic Ambiguity and Plural Toponmies -- Researching Toponyms in Ulco -- Ulco-West OR Location, Kgorokwe and Lahlumlenze? -- Written Toponymic Exclusions -- One Mile: Oral Invention -- Conclusion -- References -- 11: Ancestral Centers and Bureaucratic Boundaries: Sociolinguistic Scaling in an Eastern Indonesian Polity -- Introduction -- Chronotopes and Sociolinguistic Scaling in Indonesia -- Setting and Background -- Ancestral Chronotopes -- Shifting Scales -- Conclusions -- References -- 12: Participatory Urban Planning Rituals in Brazil: Technical Language as a Challenge to the Democratic Production of Space -- Introduction -- The Power of Technical Language -- The Brazilian Urban Planning Field -- The Empirical Objects: Two Participatory Urban Planning Processes in the City of Belo Horizonte -- The Participation Ritual -- Conclusions -- References -- 13: Between Toponymy and Cartography: An Evolving Geography of Heritage in George Town, Malaysia -- Introduction -- Mapping George Town's Heritage -- Early Planning Efforts -- Towards a (Redefined) Historic Enclave -- Between Ethnonationalism and Multiculturalism: A Compromised Cartography of Heritage -- Ironies of Cartography: Seven Streets Versus Clan Jetties -- Seven Streets Precinct -- Clan Jetties -- Lines and Names: Techniques of Inclusion and Exclusion -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: New Directions in Linguistic Geography
• ISBN: 9789811936630; 9789811936623
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910616365703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II