Ethnogeographical categories in English and Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara  

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Bromhead, Helen

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 33 no. 1 (2011), page 58-75.
Topik: Anthropological linguistics Contrastive semantics Landscape terms Language and culture Lexical semantics Natural Semantic Metalanguage
Fulltext: vol. 33 issue 1 January, 2011. p. 58-75.pdf (344.07KB)

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This study examines the contrastive lexical semantics of a selection of landscape terms in English and the Australian Aboriginal language, Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara. It argues that languages and cultures categorize the geographical environment in diverse ways. Common elements of classification are found across the languages, but it is argued that different priorities are given to these factors. Moreover, the study finds that there are language- specific aspects of the landscape terms, often motivated by culture and land use. Notably, this study presents ethnogeographical concepts as being anchored in an anthropocentric perspective, based on human vision and experience in space. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) technique of semantic analysis is used throughout, and it is argued that this methodology provides an effective tool in the exploration of ethnogeographical categories.

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