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Title: | Can small islands tell large(r) stories?: The microcosm of Nepean Island, Norfolk Island Archipelago | Contributor(s): | Nash, Joshua (author) | Publication Date: | 2015 | Open Access: | Yes | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21880 | Open Access Link: | https://royalsoc.org.au/images/pdf/journal/RSNSW_V148-1_Nash.pdf | Abstract: | Norfolk Island, South Pacific provides linguists a near laboratory case study in naming, language contact, and environmental management. The two languages spoken on the island, Norf'k - the language of the descendants of the Pitcairn Islanders - and English, are both used in place-naming. This short note analyses the toponyms of Nepean Island, a small uninhabited island 800 metres south of Norfolk. It questions whether Nepean is a microcosm of naming behaviour for the rest of the Norfolk macrocosm. For its size, Nepean contains a large number of toponyms. The paper suggests the uninhabited nature of Nepean may have resulted in fewer commemorative anthroponymic toponyms, a situation unlike naming patterns in the rest of the archipelago. Nepean offers a study of naming a small no-man's land as compared to naming a larger occupied land. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 148(455/456), p. 82-86 | Publisher: | Royal Society of New South Wales | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 0035-9173 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200408 Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) 200406 Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 470409 Linguistic structures (incl. phonology, morphology and syntax) 470406 Historical, comparative and typological linguistics |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture 950201 Communication Across Languages and Culture |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies 280116 Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture 130201 Communication across languages and culture |
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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