Resumen En el presente artículo vamos a examinar una treintena de apelativos raros, extraños o curiosos que otras tantas Vírgenes extremeñas tomaron del nombre lugar su aparición, nombres toponímicos todos, muy antiguos, cuyo significado sólo puede com-prenderse si los examinamos desde perspectiva etimológica. Palabras clave : Lingüística. Toponimia. Extremadura. Nombres Vírgenes. Abstract This...

Abstract In 2016, a special issue of the Linguistic Landscapes: An International Journal explored nexus between LL and collective memory studies, calling for more research at interface these disciplines. Our analysis adds to recent studies by exploring ways in which commemorative street renaming processes are discursively embedded. We build on memorialisation as well critical toponymy analyse m...

Gotland is considered in many works as an important geographical point the context of ‟Varangian legend” Tale Bygone Years. The obscurity general ethnic and attribution Varangians, with more obvious linking corresponding chronicle plots to island Baltic Sea, concentration on this evidence its role international trade Viking Age, finds Gotlandic artifacts Eastern Europe make one see Gotland, if ...

Abstract. In many parts of the world, motorized travel is one most common ways that people interact with their regional landscape. This study investigates how travelers' understandings place might be influenced by what landforms they can see from a vehicle. It uses cumulative viewshed analysis on Washington State (United States) highway network to determine which physical landscape features are...

Naming is searching for language symbols to describe objects, concepts, and processes by utilizing vocabulary through changes in meaning or the creation of words. Toponyms are used as identity a place because they come from results culture people area, which originate reciprocal relationship with environment, this case, namely language. The name cannot be separated characteristics things relate...

A partir da onomástica, ramo lexicologia que estuda os nomes próprios, a toponímia vem buscando estudar próprios dos lugares existem nesse mundo. Partindo de um projeto maior, o Atlas Toponímico Bahia (ATOBAH), objetiva topônimos baianos, começando pelos designam acidentes físicos relacionados às águas, esta pesquisa apresenta principais rios pertencem ao Território Identidade 6 – Baixo Sul. Es...

A Toponímia, ciência que se dedica ao estudo dos nomes de lugar, é grande relevância para o conhecimento aspectos históricos e socioculturais um povo, uma vez permite reconhecer, nos topônimos investigados, fatos linguísticos, ideologias crenças povo. Desse modo, vinculado ATEMIG — Atlas Toponímico do Estado Minas Gerais —, projeto em desenvolvimento na FALE/UFMG desde 2005, este trabalho tem c...

In taking an integrated ethnopedological approach, this study aims to investigate the meaning of the distribution of the toponyms used in traditional and recent cartography of Sardinia (southern Italy). It is particularly, but not only, focused on those related to soil resources. Sardinia is particularly interesting in this respect, as its unique history, geography, and linguistic position make...