Directionals, episodic structure, and geographic information systems: Area/punctual distinctions in Ahtna travel narration
Abstract Interest in the past decades in the way spatial cognition manifests in language has led to a growing body of literature on the topic. The concurrent development of user-friendly geographic information systems (GIS) software can give linguists new perspectives on spatial language, especially...
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crdegruyter:10.1515/lingvan-2014-1004 2024-06-23T07:45:01+00:00 Directionals, episodic structure, and geographic information systems: Area/punctual distinctions in Ahtna travel narration Berez, Andrea L. 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2014-1004 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/lingvan-2014-1004/xml https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/lingvan-2014-1004/pdf en eng Walter de Gruyter GmbH Linguistics Vanguard volume 1, issue 1, page 155-175 ISSN 2199-174X journal-article 2015 crdegruyter https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2014-1004 2024-06-11T04:05:20Z Abstract Interest in the past decades in the way spatial cognition manifests in language has led to a growing body of literature on the topic. The concurrent development of user-friendly geographic information systems (GIS) software can give linguists new perspectives on spatial language, especially narratives describing geographic landscapes, by allowing the researcher access to those landscapes in a way that was previously only available by visiting the region in person. In this paper, I discuss how the use of GIS reveals that Ahtna speakers use subtle distinctions in the directional system to structure discourse about overland travel into narrative episodes. Ahtna is an Athabascan language spoken in the Copper River area of southcentral Alaska by about 35 native speakers. Article in Journal/Newspaper ahtna Athabascan Alaska De Gruyter Linguistics Vanguard 1 1 155 175 |
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Abstract Interest in the past decades in the way spatial cognition manifests in language has led to a growing body of literature on the topic. The concurrent development of user-friendly geographic information systems (GIS) software can give linguists new perspectives on spatial language, especially narratives describing geographic landscapes, by allowing the researcher access to those landscapes in a way that was previously only available by visiting the region in person. In this paper, I discuss how the use of GIS reveals that Ahtna speakers use subtle distinctions in the directional system to structure discourse about overland travel into narrative episodes. Ahtna is an Athabascan language spoken in the Copper River area of southcentral Alaska by about 35 native speakers. |
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