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- Title
THOUGHTS ON A CONCEPT OF LANGUAGE GEOGRAPHY.
- Authors
JORDAN, Peter
- Abstract
It is the goal of this article to highlight the relation between language and space from the geographical perspective. After a screening of the position of language in sciences and the involvement of geographers so far, selected spatial aspects of language are highlighted: languages as reflections of the spatial context of cultures, spatial spread and retreat of languages and the powers behind them, rise and fall of languages, the different relation of language functions (standard language, dialect; official language, military language, sacred language etc.) to space, the role of language for space-related identity, trade and educational languages and their processes of expansion and regression, the function of place names in relating man to space.
- Subjects
GEOTOURISM; GEOGRAPHERS; GEOGRAPHICAL perception; TOPOGRAPHY; GEOPOLITICS
- Publication
Geographica Timisiensis, 2014, Vol 23, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
1224-0079
- Publication type
Article