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Place and place names: a unified model [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The goal of this paper is to offer a unified account of Place as a central theoretical notion across different disciplines. We show that while psychology, geography and other sciences have been converging to a unified view of this notion, linguistics ...
Francesco-Alessio Ursini, Yue Sara Zhang
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Toponymy as Commodity: Exploring the Economic Dimensions of Urban Place Names [PDF]
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2015 In recent years the study of urban toponymy (place names) has been revitalized by the emergence of a ‘critical toponymies’ approach. This focuses on the cultural politics of place naming and the decisions involved in attributing names to the urban ...
Craig Young
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Tourism and toponymy: commodifying and consuming place names [PDF]
Tourism Geographies, 2014 Academic geographers have a long history of studying both tourism and place names, but have rarely made linkages between the two. Within critical toponymic studies there is increasing debate about the commodification of place names, but to date the role ...
Duncan Light
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Urban Place Names: Introduction
Urban Science, 2020 Urban place names are multidimensional phenomena [...]
Sergei Basik
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Ubiquitous place names Standardization and study in Indonesia [PDF]
, 2015 Place names play a vital role in human society. Names exist in all languages and place names are an indispensible part of international communication. This has been acknowledged by the establishment of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical ...
Allan F. Lauder, M. Lauder
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An exploratory study of place-names in Sinai Peninsula, Egypt: a spatial approach
Annals of GIS, 2018 The Sinai Peninsula is a vital part of the Arab Republic of Egypt, geographically and historically. Its uniqueness and diversity of nature are reflected in its place-names, including both physical and human (cultural) features.
Nahed T Zeini
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The morphological structure of complex place names: the case of Dutch
Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 2015 In the theoretical literature, it is generally assumed that place names are morphologically simplex, at least from a synchronic perspective. This derives from the observation that constituents of complex place names often become opaque over time.
Björn Köhnlein
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Linked data authority records for Irish place names [PDF]
International Journal on Digital Libraries, 2014 Linked Data technologies are increasingly being implemented to enhance cataloguing workflows in libraries, archives and museums. We review current best practice in library cataloguing, how Linked Data is used to link collections and provide consistency ...
Catherine Ryan +5 more
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Spanish Place Names of the Falkland Islands
Names, 2022 It has been argued that no Spanish toponymic inventory is used in the Falkland Islands (Woodman 2016). Nonetheless, maps attest to the presence of several Spanish names. The existence of these place names reflects the history of the area. Even though the
Yliana V. Rodríguez
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