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Title: | Linguistics, geography, and the potential of Australian island toponymies | Contributor(s): | Nash, Joshua (author)![]() |
Publication Date: | 2017 | DOI: | 10.1080/00049182.2017.1296749 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/22018 | Abstract: | Australian placename studies have focused on documenting toponymic histories and issues of concern mainly for placename taxonomy and etymology. Language-external factors such as geographical and environmental conditions have not been of great interest to Australian toponymists. This article assesses the role of geographical and environmental constriction of island places on their toponymy. It considers whether or not island locations breed 'insular toponymies' or placename histories inaccessible and not readily accessible to outsider researchers. The case studies are Norfolk Island, South Pacific, and Dudley Peninsula, South Australia, two island environments within political Australia. The results demonstrate that the degree of insularity of the toponymies of the two island environments is driven more by geographical and social factors than linguistic elements. The results put forward several ways in which geographers, linguists, historians, toponymists, and Australian studies scholars could work together and collaborate to better understand Australian island places. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Australian Geographer, 48(4), p. 519-537 | Publisher: | Routledge | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1465-3311 0004-9182 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200408 Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics) |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 470409 Linguistic structures (incl. phonology, morphology and syntax) 470411 Sociolinguistics |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950201 Communication Across Languages and Culture 950503 Understanding Australia's Past |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130201 Communication across languages and culture 130703 Understanding Australia’s past |
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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