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Somatisms in the geographical vocabulary of the Yakut and Khakass languages

Altaistics
Since ancient times, a person names objects of the environment, correlating them, first, with parts of his body. The study of somatisms is of great interest, since the nomination, process is particularly evident in them, the connection between the object and the person giving the name is clearly manifested: the transparency of the internal form allows ...
I. N. Sorova, K. K. Neustroev
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The discourse of data: exploring data-related vocabularies in geographic information systems description

Journal of Information Science, 2005
Various ideas of data have emerged, expressed in practice through distinct vocabularies of data-related terms. This article develops a six-category taxonomy of these vocabularies, and illustrates how their terms are utilized in texts which relate to geographic information systems (GIS) in general, and to the HYDRA5 water catchment modeling system ...
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Evaluation of Geographic Vocabularies and Their Usage

Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, 2021
Erik Radio   +4 more
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Dealing with Words to Deal with the World: How Can We Use the Geographic Education Vocabulary in Learning Pathways?

2021
This chapter associates School Cartography and Spatial Thinking in order to evaluate how they can help us to create learning pathways. This approach is based on the assumption that these pathways aggregate a broad, meaningful and powerful vocabulary that can be arranged in different stages to help teachers and students to investigate geographical ...
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Comparing Teacher-Directed and Computer-Assisted Instruction of Elementary Geographic Place Vocabulary

Journal of Geography, 2006
Abstract Increased knowledge of geographic place name vocabulary continues to be important to student academic success. Place knowledge is a vital part of students' learning to be responsible citizens by helping them become more conscious of the world around them and preparing them to enter a global workplace.
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The relationship between vocabulary knowledge and L2 reading/listening comprehension: A meta-analysis

Language Teaching Research, 2022
Xian Zhang   +2 more
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Reflection of the Russian Empire Foreign and Domestic Political Interests in the Vocabulary of “Notes of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society”

NSU Vestnik. Series: Linguistics and Intercultural Communication
The article outlines lexical peculiarities of “Imperial Russian Geographic Society Notes” in their connection with extralinguistic factors. On the one hand, use of vocabulary in the magazine is in line with the tradition of describing territories in travel and geographical notes of the mid-19th century. On the other hand, this edition has the status of
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The emergence of a rural/urban contrast in the vocabulary of Xhosa-speakers: a study in semantic shift in 15 Xhosa words and its relation to age, geographical area and language attitudes

2023
In this study I explored the possible emergence of a rural/urban contrast in the vocabulary of Xhosa. In order to focus the study I used 15 Xhosa words that appeared to be undergoing semantic shift and researched the meanings ascribed to these words with Xhosa-speakers in both rural and urban areas.
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