Landscape, seascape and the ontology of places on Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea  

Oleh:

Levinson, Stephen C.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 30 no. 2-3 (2008), page 256-290.
Topik: Landscape; Universals; Lexicon; Ethnogeography; Papua New Guinea; Oceania
Fulltext: Levinson_Stephen_C, p. 256-290.pdf (7.33MB)

Isi artikel

This paper describes the descriptive landscape and seascape terminology of an isolate language, Ye´liˆ Dnye, spoken on a remote island off Papua New Guinea. The terminology reveals an ontology of landscape terms fundamentally mismatching that in European languages, and in current GIS applications. These landscape terms, and a rich set of seascape terms, provide the ontological basis for toponyms across subdomains. Considering what motivates landscape categorization, three factors are considered: perceptual salience, human affordance and use, and cultural ideas. The data show that cultural ideas and practices are the major categorizing force: they directly impact the ecology with environmental artifacts, construct religious ideas which play a major role in the use of the environment and its naming, and provide abstract cultural templates which organize large portions of vocabulary across subdomains.

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