Doing things with toponyms: the pragmatics of placenames in Western Arnhem Land

Garde, Murray

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“…This diversity is multifaceted and applies both within and across cultures. Thus, placenames are described as having multiple and divergent functional underpinnings and usage, from the disambiguating and jurisdictional applications of ownership and administration often associated with western societies (Rostaing, 1948), to sociocultural functions as anchoring points for communication and transmission of knowledge about people, events, resources, and history (Cogos, Roué, & Roturier, 2017;Garde, 2014;Thornton, 2011). Linguistically, too, placenames and placename systems vary on several levels (Burenhult & Levinson, 2008).…”

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Maps meet myths: Understanding Jahai place naming through Geographical Information Systems

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2022

J. of Ling. Geography

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Placenames are seemingly universal, with the potential to reveal different systems of organizing information in everyday communication. We report on the relationship between placenames in Jahai, an indigenous language spoken by the Jahai people of the Malay Peninsula, and the environment. Our approach explores the tendency to organize names using a hierarchy of kinship associated with the cnεl, mythological entities in origin stories, which appears to map onto catchment areas. By associating linguistic data with these ethnographic inputs and geographical properties calculated in a Geographic Information System, we generate and make suggestions for productive ways of understanding placenames as systems.

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Maps meet myths: Understanding Jahai place naming through Geographical Information Systems

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Burenhult

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2022

J. of Ling. Geography

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The Oxford Guide to Australian languages is a wide-ranging reference work that provides information about the more than 550 traditional and new Indigenous languages of Australia. There are chapters covering phonology, morphology, and syntax; language change, typology, and language classification, and language in the social sphere, including sociolinguistics and language variation, child-directed speech, and multilingualism. It describes the contemporary linguistic landscape, including language endangerment and reclamation. It is an up-to-date compendium of knowledge on traditional and contemporary languages, with a particular focus on material which is not covered in the handbooks from the past.

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Doing things with toponyms: the pragmatics of placenames in Western Arnhem Land

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