This collection brings together contributions from a new wave of research into language, space, and place, at the intersection of various disciplines, from geography to sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. The authors investigate the myriad ways that people conceive ofand thereby describethe world around them, studying the impact these ideas have on their identities, and highlighting the tension between conflicting ontologies of space.
It is a timely and invaluable new resource for researchers and students in linguistics, geography, anthropology and communication.
1. Introduction.- Part I. Reconceptualizing the Landscape.- 2. Southeast Asian Island City-State, Singapore: Multi-Scalar Spatial Fictions and the Hinterland within.- 3. The Geographic Sides of Small-Scale Multilingualism: New Challenges in Linguistic Cartography.- 4. Border Texts: Border-Crossing Narratives and Local Myths in the Russian-Chinese Border Areas of Russia.- Part II. Decolonize This Space.- 5. N Wahi Pana I Ho?onalowale ?Ia...
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