The Quest for Definitions. Proceedings of the 14th UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms Meeting, Corfu, 23�25 May 2013 The quest for definitions : proceedings of the 14th UNGEGEN Working Group on Exonyms M

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Impresum: Verlag Dr. Kovac
Zbirka: Name & place : contributions to toponymic literature and research, ISSN 2191-9178 ; vol. 3
Oznake: Geografska imena - Posvetovanja
UDK: 81'373.21
Ostalo: Ocena: Why is it that the topic of exonyms, and more precisely the endonym / exonym divide, attracts so much interest and is so much disputed? It is perhaps because this divide arises when a geographical name is considered within the relationship between a name-using community and the feature bearing this name - is the feature marked by the name 'ours' or 'theirs'?
This is a highly political, sociological and cultural-geographical issue which also has juridical implications and is frequently loaded with emotion, since from this perspective place names are symbols of space-related personal and group identities. It is much more emotive than other aspects of toponymy, such as the type of feature a name indicates or what its etymological origin might be.
The issue is ubiquitous, affecting the relationship between various types and ranks of communities at every level; not only the relationship between nations, but also that between dominant and non-dominant groups at the sub-national level, between the inhabitants of a city, town or village and outsiders, and even between house-owners and their neighbours.
It corresponds also to a basic human instinct - to distinguish between what is 'mine' or 'ours' and what is 'yours' or 'theirs'. Moreover it is highly political, because of historical events like population exchange and changes of rule and political power, which may have resulted in a shift of name status between endonym and exonym.
Another reason for the sensitivity of the endonym/exonym divide is that the use of exonyms is frequently regarded as an expression of claims on geographical features, although this is almost always a misinterpretation.
The Working Group on Exonyms of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) dealt from its foundation in 2002 with this divide arriving at an increasingly profound understanding of the issue. Still, many questions are open, such as whether language and officiality were ess
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Izdaja: 1ST
ISBN-10: 3-8300-7747-5
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Število strani: 302
Datum izdaje: 2014
Vsebina: Why is it that the topic of exonyms, and more precisely the endonym / exonym divide, attracts so much interest and is so much disputed? It is perhaps because this divide arises when a geographical name is considered within the relationship between a name-using community and the feature bearing this name - is the feature marked by the name 'ours' or 'theirs'?
This is a highly political, sociological and cultural-geographical issue which also has juridical implications and is frequently loaded with emotion, since from this perspective place names are symbols of space-related personal and group identities. It is much more emotive than other aspects of toponymy, such as the type of feature a name indicates or what its etymological origin might be.
The issue is ubiquitous, affecting the relationship between various types and ranks of communities at every level; not only the relationship between nations, but also that between dominant and non-dominant groups at the sub-national level, between the inhabitants of a city, town or village and outsiders, and even between house-owners and their neighbours.
It corresponds also to a basic human instinct - to distinguish between what is 'mine' or 'ours' and what is 'yours' or 'theirs'. Moreover it is highly political, because of historical events like population exchange and changes of rule and political power, which may have resulted in a shift of name status between endonym and exonym.
Another reason for the sensitivity of the endonym/exonym divide is that the use of exonyms is frequently regarded as an expression of claims on geographical features, although this is almost always a misinterpretation.
The Working Group on Exonyms of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) dealt from its foundation in 2002 with this divide arriving at an increasingly profound understanding of the issue. Still, many questions are open, such as whether language and officiality were ess
ostalo: DRUGI NASLOVI: Exonyms meeting
VRSTA/VSEBINA: konferenčni zbornik
JEZIK: angleški
LETO: 2014
ZALOžNIšTVO IN IZDELAVA: Hamburg : Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2014
OSTALI AVTORJI: Jordan, Peter, 1949-Woodman, Paul
FIZIčNI OPIS: 295 str. : ilustr., zvd. ; 21 cm
OPOMBE: Opombe na dnu str.Bibliografija pri posameznih prispevkih
PREDMETNE OZNAKE (NEKONTROLIRANE): zemljepisna imena / eksonimi / endonimi / standardizacija / geographical names / exonyms / endonyms / standardization
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