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Insular toponymies : place-naming on Norfolk Island, South Pacific and Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island /

How do people name places on islands? Is toponymy in small island communities affected by degrees of connection to larger neighbours such as a mainland? Are island (contact) languages and mainland languages different in how they are used in naming places? How can we conceptualise the human-human int...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nash, Joshua
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : The John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
Colección:Culture and language use ; v. 9.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Insular Toponymies; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Dedication page; Table of contents; Insular Toponymies; 1.1 Bev McCoy; 1.2 Toponymy; 1.3 The Focus; 1.4 Pristine place-naming; 1.5 The Study; 1.6 Norfolk Island, South Pacific; 1.7 Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island; The Context; 2.1 Epistemology; 2.2 Norfolk Island: History, people, environment, and language; 2.3 Nepean Island; 2.4 Phillip Island; 2.5 Norfolk Island; 2.6 Pitcairn and Norfolk; 2.7 Pitkern and Norf'k; 2.8 What sort of language is Norf'k?; 2.9 Toponymy and ecolinguistics; 2.10 Toponymic theory; 2.11 Island toponymy.
  • 2.12 Dudley Peninsula: History, people, environment, and language2.13 Pristine toponymy on Dudley Peninsula; Doing ecolinguistic fieldwork on islands; 3.1 Ecolinguistics; 3.2 Fieldwork; 3.3 What has affected toponymy on Norfolk Island?; 3.4 Methods; 3.5 Data division and taxonomy; 3.6 Naming classifications; 3.7 Techniques; Linguistic aspects of Norfolk Island toponymy; 4.1 Toponym statistics; 4.2 Nepean Island; 4.3 Phillip Island; 4.4 First and Second Settlement names; 4.5 Melanesian Mission; 4.6 Ar and dar in Norf'k toponyms; 4.7 Fer in Norf'k toponyms and the influence of St Kitts Creole.
  • 4.8 House names4.9 Microtoponymic case study 1: Cascade Road roof names; 4.10 Cultural patterns of Cascade Road roof names; 4.11 Road names; 4.12 Fishing ground names; 4.13 Tagmemic analysis of Norf'k toponyms; 4.14 Spatial orientation in Norfolk/Norf'k toponyms; 4.15 Lexicalised prepositions in Norf'k toponyms; 4.16 Comparative analysis of official and unofficial Norfolk toponyms; Cultural aspects of Norfolk Island toponymy; 5.1 Gods country; 5.2 Fata Fata; 5.3 Lizzies; 5.4 Monty; 5.5 Gootys; Linguistic aspects of Dudley Peninsula toponymy; 6.1 Nils Swanson; 6.2 Toponym statistics.
  • 6.3 Topographical names6.4 Microtoponymic case study 2: Vernon; 6.5 Fishing ground names; Cultural aspects of Dudley Peninsula toponymy; 7.1 Dudley Peninsula corner names; 7.2 Between the Tits; 7.3 Toponyms associated with Tiger Simpson; 7.4 Reflection; Toponymic ethnography; 8.1 Discussion and implications; 8.2 Insular Toponymies, toponymic ethnographies; 8.3 Leaving; References; APPENDIX A. Norfolk Island Data; APPENDIX B. Dudley Peninsula Data; Index.