Landscape in Language

Transdisciplinary perspectives

Editors

David M. Mark

| University at Buffalo (SUNY)

Andrew G. Turk

| Murdoch University

Niclas Burenhult

| Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen and Lund University

David Stea

| Texas State University

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Landscape is fundamental to human experience. Yet until recently, the study of landscape has been fragmented among the disciplines. This volume focuses on how landscape is represented in language and thought, and what this reveals about the relationships of people to place and to land. Scientists of various disciplines such as anthropologists, geographers, information scientists, linguists, and philosophers address several questions, including: Are there cross-cultural and cross-linguistic variations in the delimitation, classification, and naming of geographic features? Can alternative world-views and conceptualizations of landscape be used to produce culturally-appropriate Geographic Information Systems (GIS)? Topics included: ontology of landscape; landscape terms and concepts; toponyms; spiritual aspects of land and landscape terms; research methods; ethical dimensions of the research; and its potential value to indigenous communities involved in this type of research.

[Culture and Language Use, 4] 2011. xiii, 449 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/clu.4

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix–x
Preface	xi–xiii
Landscape in language: An introduction David M. Mark, Andrew G. Turk, Niclas Burenhult and David Stea	1–24
Ethnophysiography Andrew G. Turk, David M. Mark and David Stea	25–45
Exploring philosophy of place: Potential for synergy between phenomenology and ethnophysiography Andrew G. Turk	47–72
Embedded in place: ‘Mirror knowledge’ and ‘simultaneous landscapes’ among Māori Brian Murton	73–100
Philosophical issues in ethnophysiography: Landform terms, disciplinarity, and the question of method Bruce B. Janz	101–119
‘Land’ and life: Ethnoecology and ethnogeography as complementary approaches to the analyses of landscape perception Chris Duvall	121–141
Landscape in Western Pantar, a Papuan outlier of southern Indonesia Gary Holton	143–166
Hawaiian storied place names: Re-placing cultural meaning Renee Pualani Louis	167–186
Between the trees and the tides: Inuit ways of discriminating space in a coastal and boreal landscape Scott A. Heyes	187–223
Differing conceptualizations of the same landscape: The Athabaskan and Eskimo language boundary in Alaska Gary Holton	225–237
A case study in Ahtna Athabascan geographic knowledge James Kari	239–260
Revitalizing place names through stories and songs Susan Paskvan	261–274
Language and landscape among the Tlingit Thomas F. Thornton	275–289
Language, landscape and ethnoecology, reflections from northwestern Canada Leslie Main Johnson	291–326
Landscape embedded in language: The Navajo of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, and their named places Stephen C. Jett	327–342
Navajo landscape and its contexts Camelita Topaha	343–351
Navigating regional landscapes with Jicarilla personal narrative Elizabeth M. Lynch	353–368
Ontology of landscape in language Werner Kuhn	369–379
The role of geospatial technologies for integrating landscape in language: Geographic Information Systems and the Cree of northern Quebec Renée Sieber and Christopher Wellen	381–393
Classifying landscape character Lars Brabyn and David M. Mark	395–409
Perspectives on the ethical conduct of landscape in language research Andrew G. Turk and David M. Mark	411–434
Notes on contributors	435–441
Index	443–449

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Subjects

Linguistics

Anthropological Linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2011003203