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Diversity in Spatial Language Within Communities: The Interplay of Culture, Language and Landscape in Representations of Space (Short Paper)
Palmer, Bill; Gaby, Alice; Lum, Jonathon. - : Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, 2018. : LIPIcs - Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics. 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018), 2018
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How does the environment shape spatial language? Evidence for sociotopography
Palmer, Bill; Lum, Jonathon; Schlossberg, Jonathan. - : Walter de Gruyter, 2017
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Socioculturally mediated responses to environment shaping universals and diversity in spatial language
Abstract: This paper reports on an empirical experiment-based study testing the extent to which systems of linguistic spatial reference correlate with aspects of the physical environment in which a language community lives. We investigated linguistic spatial behaviour in two unrelated languages in both similar and contrasting locations, ranging from atoll islands to urban environments, using standardised tests whose results were subject to quantitative analysis. Our findings reveal significant variation in spatial referential strategy preference in the two languages. Some preferences correlated with environment (e.g. island vs. urban). However, others correlated with degree and nature of interaction with environment, and others with linguistic resources available to speakers. The findings demonstrate that spatial behaviour reflects a complex interplay of responses to environment; sociocultural interaction with environment; and speakers’ linguistic repertoire.
Keyword: cross-cultural research; Dhivehi; Marshallese; spatial frames of reference; spatial language; topography
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1387233
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