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Critical Toponymy: Place names in political, historical and commercial landscapes contains a selection of double-blind peer-reviewed papers from the 4th International Symposium on Place Names that took place 18-20 September 2017 in Windhoek, Namibia. These papers present current thinking on how the critical turn in social sciences is manifested in toponymic research, not only locally but also internationally. As such it includes research on place names from South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Austria, Slovenia, Central America and even the former Czechoslovakia. The contributions show that the etymology of place names are never purely linguistic – social, political, commercial and other factors influence the giving, use and adaptations of these linguistic and cultural artefacts. Furthermore, given their high symbolic content, place names also serve as political and commercial currency. Place names are therefore important symbolic markers in preserving or changing cultural identities, and in marking or facilitating socio-political changes and relations. Critical Toponymy showcases the many ways in which the representational potential of place names can be deployed in different contexts. Scholars as well as practitioners in toponymy and sociolinguistics will find this an illuminating read.
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Keywords
- anthropology
- Austria
- Bushmanland
- Central America
- Chrismi-Rinda Loth
- commercial place-name
- Cornelia Geldenhuys
- cultural domination
- cultural heritage
- Czechoslovakia
- dialectics and politics of football as revealed in the names and nicknames of three selected Zimbabwe stadiums
- Drago Kladnik
- Elda Hungwe
- Etymology
- First Trek
- Geographical names standardisation
- Georg Schuppener
- Godwin Makaudze
- Herero place names
- historical and commercial landscapes
- Jani de Lange
- Kathryn M. Hudson
- Katja Vintar Mally
- Language
- Lawrence Hoba
- Liketso Dube
- linguistic landscape
- Linguistics
- Lucie A. Möller
- Matjaž Geršič
- missionary societies
- name-planning
- Namibia
- NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names
- Peter Jordan
- Pioneers
- Place names
- place-related identities
- political
- Political aspects
- rural South Africa
- selected toponyms
- Slovenia
- Slovenian choronyms in brand names
- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
- Society & Social Sciences
- socio-political changes
- Sociolinguistics
- Sociology & anthropology
- South Africa
- Steyn Khesani Madlome
- Territory
- thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFB Sociolinguistics
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
- Theodorus du Plessis
- toponym
- unravelling
- Zimbabwe
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DOI: 10.18820/9781928424253Editions