- Title
- Diversity in Spatial Language Within Communities: The Interplay of Culture, Language and Landscape in Representations of Space
- Creator
- Palmer, Bill; Gaby, Alice; Lum, Jonathon; Schlossberg, Jonathan
- Relation
- International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018). Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018) (Melbourne 28-31 August, 2018) p. 53:1-53:8
- Relation
- ARC.DP120102701 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP120102701
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.53
- Publisher
- Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Significant diversity exists in the way languages structure spatial reference, and this has been shown to correlate with diversity in non-linguistic spatial behaviour. However, most research in spatial language has focused on diversity between languages: on which spatial referential strategies are represented in the grammar, and to a lesser extent which of these strategies are preferred overall in a given language. However, comparing languages as a whole and treating each language as a single data point provides a very partial picture of linguistic spatial behaviour, failing to recognise the very significant diversity that exists within languages, a largely under-investigated but now emerging field of research. This paper focuses on language-internal diversity, and on the central role of a range of sociocultural and demographic factors that intervene in the relationship between humans, languages, and the physical environments in which communities live.
- Subject
- spatial language; frame of reference; landscape; sociotopography
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1446524
- Identifier
- uon:42896
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783959770835
- Language
- eng
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