کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1103654 1488167 2008 19 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Landscape unbounded: space, place, and orientation in ≠Akhoe Hai//om and beyond
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر زبان و زبان شناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Landscape unbounded: space, place, and orientation in ≠Akhoe Hai//om and beyond
چکیده انگلیسی

Even before it became a common place to assume that “the Eskimo have a hundred words for snow” the languages of hunting and gathering people have played an important role in debates about linguistic relativity concerning geographical ontologies. Evidence from languages of hunter-gatherers has been used in radical relativist challenges to the overall notion of a comparative typology of generic natural forms and landscapes as terms of reference. It has been invoked to emphasize a personalized relationship between humans and the non-human world. It is against this background that this contribution discusses the landscape terminology of ≠Akhoe Hai//om, a Khoisan language spoken by “Bushmen” in Namibia. Landscape vocabulary is ubiquitous in ≠Akhoe Hai//om due to the fact that the landscape plays a critical role in directionals and other forms of “topographical gossip” and due to merges between landscape and group terminology. This system of landscape-cum-group terminology is outlined and related to the use of place names in the area.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Language Sciences - Volume 30, Issues 2–3, March–May 2008, Pages 362–380
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