Download or read book The Geography of Names written by Gwilym Lucas Eades and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines geographical names, place-names, and toponymy from philosophical and cultural evolutionary perspectives. Geographical name-tracking-networks (Geo-NTNs) are posited as tools for tracking names through time and across space, and for making sense of how names evolve both temporally and spatially. Examples from North and South American indigenous groups, the Canadian arctic, Wales, England, and the Middle East are brought into a theoretical framework for making sense of aspects of place-naming practices, beliefs, and systems. New geographical tools such as geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS) are demonstrated to be important in the production and maintenance of robust networks for keeping names and their associated meanings viable in a rapidly changing world where place-naming is being taken up increasingly in social media and other new mapping platforms. The Geography of Names makes the case that geographical names are transmitted memetically (i.e. as cultural units, or memes) through what Saul Kripke called communication chains. Combining insights from Kripke with views of later Wittgenstein on language and names as being inherently spatial, the present work advances theories of both these thinkers into an explicitly geographical inquiry that advances philosophical and practical aspects of naming, language, and mapping.

Download or read book Gazetteer written by United States Board on Geographic Names and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rendering of Geographical Names written by Marcel Aurousseau and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1975 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Decisions Rendered written by United States Board on Geographic Names and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Decisions of the United States Board on Geographical Names written by United States Board on Geographical Names and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Introduction to Toponymy written by Naftali Kadmon and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Decisions on Geographic Names in the United States written by United States Board on Geographic Names and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Israel Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names written by United States. Geographic Names Division and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book United States Board on Geographic Names Gazetteer written by United States Board on Geographic Names and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nooksack Place Names written by Allan Richardson and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Place names can lead us on fascinating journeys into other cultures. They convey a people’s relationship to the land, their sense of place. For indigenous peoples, place names can also be central to the revival of endangered languages. This book takes readers on an exciting voyage into the history, language, and culture of the Nooksack Tribe of Washington State and southern British Columbia. Allan Richardson and Brent Galloway trace the richness and strength of the Nooksack people’s connection to the land by documenting more than 150 places named by elders and mentioned in key historical texts. Descriptions of Nooksack history and naming patterns – combined with maps, photographs, and detailed linguistic analyses – give life to a nearly extinct language and illuminate the intertwined relationships of place, culture, language, and identity.

Download or read book Local Etymology written by Richard Stephen Charnock and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming written by Carole Hough and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful to specialists in related fields and accessible to the general reader. Since Ancient Greece, names have been regarded as central to the study of language, and this has continued to be a major theme of both philosophical and linguistic enquiry throughout the history of Western thought. The investigation of name origins is more recent, as is the study of names in literature. Relatively new is the study of names in society, which draws on techniques from sociolinguistics and has gradually been gathering momentum over the last few decades. The structure of this volume reflects the emergence of the main branches of name studies, in roughly chronological order. The first Part focuses on name theory and outlines key issues about the role of names in language, focusing on grammar, meaning, and discourse. Parts II and III deal with the study of place-names and personal names respectively, while Part IV outlines contrasting approaches to the study of names in literature, with case studies from different languages and time periods. Part V explores the field of socio-onomastics, with chapters relating to the names of people, places, and commercial products. Part VI then examines the interdisciplinary nature of name studies, before the concluding Part presents a selection of animate and inanimate referents ranging from aircraft to animals, and explains the naming strategies adopted for them.

Download or read book U S S R Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names U Z ix 783 p written by United States. Geographic Names Division and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book France written by United States. Office of Geography and published by Washington, D.C. : [The Board]. This book was released on 1964 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly the whole of America's partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help improve our schools, believing that private institutions--because they are competitively driven--are better than public ones. With The Public School Advantage, Christopher A. and Sarah Theule Lubienski offer powerful evidence to undercut this belief, showing that public schools in fact out-perform private ones.

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