Challenges in synchronic toponymy = Defis de la toponymie synchronique : structure, context and use = structures, contextes et usages / Jonas Lofstrom, Betina Schnabel-Le Corre (editors).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Löfström, Jonas, editor.

Schnabel-Le Corre, Betina, editor.

Université de Haute Bretagne, host institution.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Names, Geographical--Congresses.

Names, Geographical.

Names, Geographical--Etymology--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Tubingen, [Germany] : Narr Francke Attempto, 2015.

Language Note:

In English, and French languages.

Summary:

Due to globalization, synchronic approaches in toponymy arise increasing interest among linguists. This volume takes stock of different approaches to synchronic toponymy presenting linguistic studies on toponyms - in as various fields as grammar, morphosyntax, semantics, and pragmatics - which describe their structure and lexical status, their semantic facets, applied to the psychological, sociological and political implications of their use and function in discourse. All these factors account for the great variety of linguistic projects related to toponyms, i.e. modelling, as well as the use and normalization of toponyms in spoken and written contexts.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 19, 2017).

ISBN:

9783772054792

377205479X