Landscape in Language
：Transdisciplinary perspectives
( Culture and Language Use )
Publication subTitle ：Transdisciplinary perspectives
Publication series ： Culture and Language Use
Author： David M. Mark Andrew G. Turk Niclas Burenhult David Stea
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication year： 2011
E-ISBN: 9789027287045
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789027202864
Subject： H0 Linguistics
Language： ENG
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Description
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.