Affiliation:
1. Universidad de la República
2. Universidad de la República y Academia Nacional de Letras
Abstract
Abstract
The ongoing Argentinian claim of sovereignty over the Falklands has impacted its toponymy by assigning the archipelago,
and places within it, different names than those used on the Islands. Place naming phenomena like this one have not received much attention.
To our knowledge, there is no prior research either on place naming in the Falklands within the framework of critical toponomatics or on
ethnography regarding Islanders’ language attitudes. This is a preliminary attempt to do so, by looking into the Spanish place names used in
Argentinian maps but not in local ones. In our analysis, we further resort to in situ interviews, participant observation, and social media
data. Our analysis suggests that these Argentinian toponyms receive neither official nor societal approval by Islanders. We conclude that
Argentinian Spanish names became a point of contention because of the political conflict, leading to a linguistic conflict scenario.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Surfaces and Interfaces,Communication,Language and Linguistics