WHAT'S IN A NAME? LINGUISTICS, GEOGRAPHY, AND TOPONYMS
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Auteurs : Lisa Radding [États-Unis] ; John Western [États-Unis]Source :
- Geographical Review [ 0016-7428 ] ; 2010-07.
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In differing ways, linguistics and geography each observes that a name's significance is connected to a society. According to lexical theory, a word is arbitrary: Its sound and meaning have no intrinsic link; its function is grammatical. Names are, however, special words. We bestow names based on how they sound or on what they may already have come to represent; names are not arbitrary. In turn, toponyms are special names, and as example we discuss a specific one, “New Orleans.” Far from an arbitrary pairing of form and meaning, this toponym reveals that names reflect the experience of the people who use them.
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