Landscape in language : transdisciplinary perspectives / edited by David M. Mark, Andrew G. Turk, Niclas Burenhult, David Shea.

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TextSeries: Culture and language use ; v. 4.Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 449 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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9789027287045
902728704X
1283128276
9781283128278
9786613128270
6613128279

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Landscape in language.DDC classification:

910/.02014 22

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P120.V37 L25 2011eb

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Contents:

Landscape in Language; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Foreword; Preface; Landscape in language; Ethnophysiography; Exploring philosophy of place; Embedded in place; Philosophical issues in ethnophysiography; 'Land' and life; Landscape in Western Pantar, a Papuan outlier of southern Indonesia; Hawaiian storied place names; Between the trees and the tides; Differing conceptualizations of the same landscape; A case study in Ahtna Athabascan geographic knowledge; Revitalizing place names through stories and songs; Language and landscape among the Tlingit.

Language, landscape and ethnoecology, reflections from northwestern CanadaLandscape embedded in language; Navajo landscape and its contexts; Navigating regional landscapes with Jicarilla personal narrative; Ontology of landscape in language; The role of geospatial technologies for integrating landscape in language; Classifying landscape character; Perspectives on the ethical conduct of landscape in language research; Notes on contributors; Index.

Summary: 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-

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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-

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