Insular Toponymies: Place-naming on Norfolk Island, South Pacific and Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island
Joshua Nash
[Culture and Language Use, 9] 2013. xiv, 302 pp.
Joshua Nash
List of John Benjamins publications for which Joshua Nash plays a role.
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Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Lexicography | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2019 The long and short of it: Vowel length, placenames, and ecolinguistics Language Ecology 3:1, pp. 120–132 | Research report
Placenames (toponyms) give insight into relationships involving people, place, and language. An exemplary placename derived from long-term engagement within the sensitive linguistic ecology of Norfolk Island in the South Pacific is used to detail how a fusing of linguistic analysis, words, and… read more
2017 Lim, Lisa & Umberto Ansaldo, 2016. Languages in Contact Languages in Contrast 17:1, pp. 154–156 | Review
2015 ‘Sometime is lies’: Narrative and identity in two mixed-origin island languages Narrative and Identity Construction in the Pacific Islands, Gounder, Farzana (ed.), pp. 101–116 | Article
We compare Pitkern-Norf’k and Palmerston narratives to each other and to narrative construction in other more well-known English dialects. This will demonstrate that narratives of these two beach community languages differ from the latter in many parallel ways. We discuss the narrative types… read more
2015 On the Possibility of Pidgin English Toponyms in Pacific Missions Historiographia Linguistica 42:1, pp. 139–151 | Article
This paper speculates about the possible existence of Pidgin English toponyms on the Melanesian Mission on Norfolk Island. The argument considers why modern historians and linguists studying the social and linguistic history of the Melanesian Mission missionaries, and why missionaries from… read more
2015 Is toponymy necessary? Studies in Language 39:1, pp. 230–235 | Article
Like other areas of linguistic study, toponymy as a domain of analysis does not present itself as being overly reflective of its own assumptions. I ask whether a sub-category or sub-analysis dedicated to toponymy is required at all if we analyse toponyms, landscape terms, and geographical names… read more
2014 Norf’k placenames and creole toponymy Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29:1, pp. 135–142 | Article