Concept ; Cultural geography ; Cultural studies ; History ; Language ; Linguistics ; Spatial analysis
Language is without any doubt a societal phenomenon, which is in many more ways related to space. While froncophone, anglophone and Spanish geography have developed a kind of language geography or geolinguistics as a subdiscipline of geography
, 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
Questions of personal identity have been at the centre of South African politics since the formation of the Union in 1910. It is scarcely surprising that successive censuses have probed the issues of race, religion, language and citizenship
Finland ; Geopolitics ; Globalization ; Language ; National identity ; Political geography ; Scientific publication ; World market
Un éminent géographe politique ajoute à l'échange de vues présenté dans les deux articles précédents de ce numéro (Antonsich, 2006; Moisio et Harle, 2006). Il examine plus étroitement le rôle joué par les marchés de l'édition internationale de
of this kind of geographic publication is Atlant, the first atlas of the world in the Slovene language, which was published in installments from 1869 to 1877. Atlant followed the concept of a Unified Slovenia, and this idea boosted the confidence of Slovenes
. The geographic, linguistic and political conditions in which Slovenes lives, as well as the relations at the time between Slovene, German, and Slavic languages, are reflected in the way foreign place names were adapted. The reprinting of Atlant in 2005 is also
the tourists' image of the Berbers develops and how it looks like, as well as the significance it has on the cultural contact which accompanies ethnic tourism in the Berbers' land. For that the author analysed the best-selling guide-books in German languages
been inseparably connected with social, cultural, economic, political and ideological developments in society. It is in this light that Atlant, the first atlas of the world in the Slovene language, is presented. In addition to the technical side
in an agriculturally high potential smallholder farming system in Central highlands of Kenya. Survey data were assessed based on consensus views, percentage frequency and descriptive statistics. Eleven erosion indicators were identified and described in local language