Landscape and Culture - Cross-Linguistic Perspectives.

Intro -- Landscape and Culture - Cross-linguistic Perspectives -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Landscape and culture -- 1.1 Introduction: mountains as brute facts? -- 1.2 Language and culture in the landscape -- 1.3 Landscape categories -- 1.4 The folk picture of the world -- 1.5 Previous landscape work -- 1.6 A human-centred perspective -- 1.7 The case of Australia -- 1.8 The natural semantic metalanguage -- 1.9 Interpretation of landscape terms in this book -- 1.10 Languages treated in this book -- 1.11 Fieldwork -- 1.12 Outline of this book -- 2. Flowing-water places -- 2.1 The river takes on the characteristics of the culture of which it is a part -- 2.2 Flowing-water places in English -- 2.3 Flowing-water places in French -- 2.4 A long water place in Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara: karu -- 2.5 Concluding remarks -- 3. Elevated places -- 3.1 Do mountains exist? -- 3.2 Mountain and hill in English, puli in Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara -- 3.3 Mountain and mountains -- 3.4 Cordillera and sierra in Spanish -- 3.5 Cliff words in English and Spanish -- 3.6 Concluding remarks -- 4. Semantics by 'the sea' -- 4.1 The sea is in our being -- 4.2 The sea, the ocean -- 4.3 The beach, the seaside -- 4.4 The coast, the shore -- 4.5 Islands, peninsulas -- 4.6 Bays, coves -- 4.7 Concluding remarks -- 5. Desert in Australian English and Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara eco-zones -- 5.1 People say it's just a desert -- 5.2 Desert in Australian English -- 5.3 Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara eco-zone words - an overview -- 5.4 Puti eco-zone in Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara -- 5.5 Puli eco-zone in Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara -- 5.6 Pila and tali in Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara -- 5.7 Concluding remarks -- 6. Human intent in the landscape.

6.1 Modification of the environment is the essence of agriculture -- 6.2 Paddocks in Australian English -- 6.3 Meadows and fields in British English -- 6.4 Nyaru in Pitjantjatjatjara/Yankunytjatjara -- 6.5 Dams in Australian English -- 6.6 Tjukitji in Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara -- 6.7 Concluding remarks -- 7. The bush in Australian English -- 7.1 The term bush has assumed great importance in the Australian lexicon -- 7.2 The bush across Englishes -- 7.3 The bush of the Australian landscape -- 7.4 The bush as a human domain -- 7.5 The bush vs. the city -- 7.6 Concluding remarks -- 8. Concluding remarks -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Culture in the landscape -- 8.3 Final remarks -- References -- Appendix 1 . Recordings information -- Name index -- Subject index.

The relationship between landscape and culture seen through language is an exciting and increasingly explored area. This ground-breaking book contributes to the linguistic examination of both cross-cultural variation and unifying elements in geographical categorization.

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