کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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1103650 | 1488167 | 2008 | 35 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
![عکس صفحه اول مقاله: Landscape, seascape and the ontology of places on Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea Landscape, seascape and the ontology of places on Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea](/preview/png/1103650.png)
This paper describes the descriptive landscape and seascape terminology of an isolate language, Yélî Dnye, spoken on a remote island off Papua New Guinea. The terminology reveals an ontology of landscape terms fundamentally mismatching that in European languages, and in current GIS applications. These landscape terms, and a rich set of seascape terms, provide the ontological basis for toponyms across subdomains. Considering what motivates landscape categorization, three factors are considered: perceptual salience, human affordance and use, and cultural ideas. The data show that cultural ideas and practices are the major categorizing force: they directly impact the ecology with environmental artifacts, construct religious ideas which play a major role in the use of the environment and its naming, and provide abstract cultural templates which organize large portions of vocabulary across subdomains.
Journal: Language Sciences - Volume 30, Issues 2–3, March–May 2008, Pages 256–290