Nation-building, language and education. The geography of teacher recruitment in Ireland, 1925-55
Cultural identity ; Education ; Ireland ; Language ; Nationalism ; School system ; Teaching
The paper examines how the Irish language emerged as one of the foundations of Irish identity and how the education system became the cornerstone of the state's language policy. Nation-building is treated as a dynamic process where views of national
Cultural geography ; Cultural landscape ; Language ; Lower California ; Mexico ; Seaside resort ; Tourism
In southern Baja California, the strong North American tourist presence since the 1980s has resulted in the use of English by tourist industry workers and the presence of signs in English. Language is used to reveal the evolution of the hybrid
Cartographic symbol ; Cartographic technique ; Cartographical display ; Language ; Map design
An effort to find out about the reasons, a mental experiment with delinguization of map language based on delimitation of four language levels and subdivision of map sign into morphemes and graphemes is demonstrated. - (MS)
Representation of geographic space in natural language, minds, culture and computers
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)
Acculturation ; Africa ; Cultural geography ; Cultural studies ; Eastern Africa ; Language
A comparative investigation of Swahili language and culture in the eastern part of Africa, carried out during the Hungaria Africa Expedition (1988) in several local communities. - (JS)
The cartographic modelling starts from classic to modern informatic sources. Cartographic informatics brings into cartography new methodic instruments and contribvutes also to the knowledge of the aspects of cartographic products and to the language
Canada ; Community ; Education ; Ethnic group ; Language ; Linguistic minority ; Montreal ; Nationalism ; Quebec ; Segregation ; Social change ; Territorial strategy ; Urban area
. Experiments with the model also offer tentative insight into how climatic and tectonic variables affect the evolqution of landscapes. The results of the model also relate to the complexity of natural landscape and its description through the language
Asia ; Chinese ; Community ; Cultural identity ; Diaspora ; Emigration ; Ethnic group ; Ethnicity ; Ideology ; Language ; Mental image ; Myth ; Social organization ; Sout-Eastern Asia