Affiliation:
1. Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies
Abstract
Abstract
Placenames (toponyms) give insight into relationships involving people, place, and language. An exemplary
placename derived from long-term engagement within the sensitive linguistic ecology of Norfolk Island in the South Pacific is used
to detail how a fusing of linguistic analysis, words, and cultural memory is beneficial for what constitutes an ecolinguistic
fieldwork methodology. Differences between the ethnographic method and an ecolinguistic fieldwork methodology are presented. This
enduring and keyed-in commitment with Norfolk Island’s social and natural surroundings offers significant perceptiveness into and
suggestions about how prolonged ecolinguistic work can be beneficial to language documentation projects, particular those
incorporating lexical (word) and semantic (memory) description.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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