2012
DOI: 10.5617/osla.313
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Place Names and Identities

Abstract: This paper discusses various approaches to the topic "place names and identities", addressing the meaning of place names, their role as links to the past as well as their identity-building capacity. The author argues that there is an intimate relationship between place and place name, and he discusses how place names may reflect or give rise to feelings of individual and collective identity attached to the places in question. Three particular personal experiences of the identity role of place names are given, … Show more

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“…In names, language is the expression of someone's thought. This opinion aligns with the argument that place names play an important role on regional and national levels, and name changes may create strong feelings among large groups of people, especially in multi-ethnic areas [10].…”
Section: Theoretical Frameworksupporting
confidence: 78%
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“…In names, language is the expression of someone's thought. This opinion aligns with the argument that place names play an important role on regional and national levels, and name changes may create strong feelings among large groups of people, especially in multi-ethnic areas [10].…”
Section: Theoretical Frameworksupporting
confidence: 78%
“…The naming of geopark sites is important since it could attract national and international tourists. According to Hulden [10], names and place belong together, regardless of how the name is formed etymologically. The name is a key to memories and experiences [10].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…When two cultures and languages contact, borrowing, such as language adaptation, is a simple approach to be reflected in a position where the minority group can peacefully coexist with the majority group in a language contact situation. Addressing the meaning of place names, according to Helleland (2012), may express feelings of individual and collective identity. Its goal is to name a place after another place with a similar name, using cognitive linguistics, anthropology, and history as guides.…”
Section: Self-namementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Geographic literacy illustrates the importance of place names, which denote placebased meaning and reflect shared or competing histories, politics, cultural narratives, and people-place relationships (Helleland 2012;Tucker and Rose-Redwood 2015). These same qualities are recognized as integral to peoples' sense of place, which has been identified as a predictor of place-based, if not pro-environmental, attitudes and behaviors (Helleland 2012;Masterson et al 2017;Trimbach, Fleming, and Biedenweg 2020). This understanding informs our conceptual framework (Figure 1), which illustrates how geographic literacy informs and interacts with peoples' sense of place, which in turn influences their place-based behaviors, perceptions, and responses to natural resource management.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%