Cultural and linguistic aspects of designing geographic information systems for Spanish speakers
Cartographic technique ; Cultural geography ; Ecuador ; Geographical information system ; Language
Discussion of problems often encountered by Spanish speakers and others when attempting to utilize geographical information systems. Reviews two pilot studies in Ecuador.―(DWG)
Geographer's role ; Linguistics ; Nineteenth Century ; Place names ; Slovenia ; Terminology ; Twenty-first century
Linguistique ; Rôle du géographe ; Siècle 19 ; Siècle 21 ; Slovénie ; Terminologie ; Toponymie
to the forefront together with linguists. After this, Slovenian geographers were involved in this topic to various extents. In the past decades a leading role has been assumed by certain geographers, who seek to integrate Slovenian toponymy within modern trends
Slovenian geographers have dealt with geographical names for a long time. In the early phase this topic was addressed by politicians, missionaries, and polymaths. In the nineteenth century the first educated Slovenian geographers came
Demographic russification and linguistic russianization of the Ukraine 1959-1979 in Geographical studies on the Soviet Union. Essays in Honor of Chauncy D. Harris.
Representation of geographic space in natural language, minds, culture and computers
Cartographic technique ; Geographical information system ; Latin America ; Spatial representation ; Technology transfer
Commercial geographical information systems are based on linguistic assumptions of English-speaking North America. Romance languages structure space in different ways complicating the GIS technology transfer to Latin America.―(DWG)
The achievements of the well-known Hungarian explorer and linguist (compiler of the Tibeto-English dictionary) are supplemented with an extract from his geographical work Geographical notice of Tibet (1832). (DLO).
During the 1970s, the emphasis in Gunnar Olsson's work entailed a shift from linguistic investigations with a philosophical flavour to linguistic experiments seen as the core of a new social science. Both of these phases in Olsson's thinking have
been received, however, with scepticism by human geographers. An attempt is made here to allay some of this scepticism by demonstrating the relevance of Olsson's concerns, first to the critique of a positivist and functionalist human geography
, and second to the emergent'agency-structure'debate as this touches upon the concerns of human geographers. In the latter respect it is suggested that Olsson's focus on the internal dimensions of the meshing of individual and society can perhaps complement
Bibliographic analysis ; Cultural area ; Diffusion ; Documentation ; Geographical periodical ; Language ; Linguistic area ; Publishing ; Scientific publication
Population and politics in a plural society: the changing geography of Canada's linguistic groups
Canada ; Cultural studies ; Ethnicity ; Internal migration ; Language ; Linguistic area ; Nationalism ; Population ; Population projection
by the linguistic landscape and by the nature and direction of population change. Linguistic affiliation determines one's propensity to remain within a region and guides the choice of destinations. The bifurcation of Canada into unilingual regions will be renforced.
Concept ; Cultural geography ; Cultural studies ; History ; Language ; Linguistics ; Spatial analysis
, geographers in German-speaking countries pay some attention to this fact only within ethnic geography. The paper highlights some more important spatial aspects of language and proposes to regard language geography as a subdiscipline of cultural geography which
has to co-operate closely with linguistics and history. - (IKR)
This article discusses linguistic and geographical aspects of the frequency of exonym use in selected European languages. In addition to true exonyms, exographs and exophones are presented. Frequency is discussed by individual languages and, within
these, by appertaining countries and the semantic types of adapted foreign geographical names. In addition, certain typical concepts of exonym use are presented with an emphasis on how they are written. - (IKR)
The linguistic analysis supports the hypothesis that Wisconsin glacier ice influenced the distribution of native North American linguistic groups. The distribution of languages suggests that the arrival of humans in the New World predated the last
glacial maximum (approximately 18,000 yr ago). The positions of the Eskimo-Aleut and Na-Dene linguistic groups during the Wisconsin glacial maximum are hypothesized to have been northwest of the main ice sheet, while the Algonquian linguistic group
Minority toponyms on maps. The rendering of linguistic minority toponyms on topographic maps of Western Europe
Purpose of this thesis is the reconstruction of the various trends or developments in the government approach to toponyms. This is done by comparing subsequent map series of the same areas where linguistic minorities were or are prevalent. The study
is by no means a linguistic study but it is intended to be a cartographical analysis. The study has been carried out in a number of contact-zones such as Belgium, Wales, Scotland, South Tirol, Carinthia, Lausatia, Vallée d'Aosta and Corsica. (AGD).
L'ouvrage s'inscrit dans un thème plus vaste intitulé Le dictionnaire toponymique de la Roumanie. C'est une oeuvre interdisciplinaire. A sa réalisation ont participé des géographes, linguistes, historiens, et ethnographes. Ce qui est nouveau
characterized by a large degree of geographical isolation (the Carpathian Mountains to the North, the Cisa River to the South) remains one of the most interesting regions of the European Continent. The tourist attractiveness of The Zakarpattia is characterized
in the categories of natural and anthropogenic values. The article also characterizes the ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity of the region, which are other elements of tourist interest. - (BJ)
biases in language, this article advocates a strategy of unsettling intellectual structures from within and seeks to make this kind of strategy accessible to geographers whose primary interests are not theoretical or linguistic.