TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mark,David M.
AU  - Turk,Andrew G.
AU  - Burenhult,Niclas
AU  - Stea,David
TI  - Landscape in language: transdisciplinary perspectives 
T2  - Culture and language use
SN  - 9789027287045
AV  - P120.V37 L25 2011eb
U1  - 910/.02014 22
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Amsterdam, Philadelphia
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Company
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Variation
KW  - Semantics
KW  - Geographical perception
KW  - Language and culture
KW  - Variation (Linguistique)
KW  - Sémantique
KW  - Perception géographique
KW  - Langage et culture
KW  - semantics
KW  - aat
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Earth Sciences
KW  - Geography
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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