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Title: | In deep water: diving site names on Norfolk Island | Contributor(s): | Nash, Joshua (author) ; Chuk, Tin (author) | Publication Date: | 2012 | DOI: | 10.1080/14766825.2012.721376 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21342 | Abstract: | A linguistic and cultural analysis of diving site names and their role as toponyms is absent in Pacific research and studies into scuba diving tourism. This article analyzes a corpus of 38 diving site names collected during interview-based fieldwork on Norfolk Island. The analyses demonstrate that the naming of Norfolk Island diving sites can be perceived as a type of tourism management - through the names, diving sites are ascribed varying degrees of linguistic, cultural, and historical significance. Previous studies in tourism research have argued that tourism can be perceived as a modern form of pilgrimage, and that the naming of tourism sites is a way of sacralizing sites in order to emphasize their importance within processes of pilgrimage. The results of this article reveal empirically that Norfolk diving sites are part of a sacralization process, where transference of the cultural, historical, and environmental significance from names as language to locations as place occurs. The article puts forward diving site names not only as a toponymic taxon of interest to toponymy and linguistics but also for island and coastal studies in the Pacific and elsewhere. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Journal of Tourism & Cultural Change, 10(4), p. 301-320 | Publisher: | Routledge | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1747-7654 1476-6825 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics) 200499 Linguistics not elsewhere classified |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 470411 Sociolinguistics 470499 Linguistics not elsewhere classified |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280116 Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Psychology |
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