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Recognition, Regulation, Revitalisation: Place Names and Indigenous Languages

Recognition, Regulation, Revitalisation: Place Names and Indigenous Languages is a selection of double-blind peer-reviewed papers from the 5th International Symposium on Place Names that took place 18-20 September 2019 in Clarens, South Africa. The symposium celebrated 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages as declared by the United Nations.

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Chrismi-Rinda Loth (ed)
University of the Free State
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1458-1729
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18820/9781928424697

Chapters

  • Foreword
    Chrismi-Rinda Loth
  • Bushman Influence on Early Cape Place Names
    Peter E. Raper
  • Translated Toponymic Texts
    A Key to Language Artefacts
    Lucie A. Möller
  • Reflections on Place Names in Indigenous Languages
    Sibusiso Ntuli
  • The South African Geographical Names Council and the Restoration of the South African NBICL
    Jani de Lange
  • Indigenous Place Names in VOC Cape Documents
    Helena Liebenberg
  • Attrition of Indigenous Place Names among the Basotho
    Loss of History and Culture
    Palesa Khotso, ’Mampoi Chele
  • Place Names in South Africa
    The Deaf Way
    Susan Lombaard
  • Place Names and Epidemics
    A Case Study of Handling Collective Fear
    Reet Hiiemäe
  • Looking for the Middle of Nowhere
    Nicknames Denoting Imaginary Remote Locations and Alluding to Really Existing Ones
    Riemer Reinsma
  • Socio-Economic and Sociopolitical Determinants of Naming the Place in Bulawayo's We Need New Names
    Sindiso Zhou, Nhlanhla Landa, Baba Tshotsho
  • The Role of Politics, Culture and Linguistic Factors in the Naming and Re-Naming of Street and Suburb Names
    A Case Study
    Johan Lubbe
  • A Gendered Analysis of the European Place-Naming System in Salisbury, Rhodesia, C.1890-1980
    Zvinashe Mamvura
  • Current Geographical Research Directions in Toponymy
    Peter Jordan

Author Biographies

Peter E. Raper, University of the Free State

Faculty of the Humanities

Lucie A. Möller, University of the Free State

Faculty of the Humanities

Sibusiso Ntuli, University of Zululand

African Languages and Culture

Jani de Lange, University of the Free State

Department of South African Sign Language and Deaf Studies

Palesa Khotso, National University of Lesotho

Department of African Languages and Literature

’Mampoi Chele, University of South Africa

Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages

Susan Lombaard, University of the Free State

Department of South African Sign Language and Deaf Studies

Reet Hiiemäe, Estonian Literary Museum

Department of Folkloristics

Riemer Reinsma

Independent researcher

Sindiso Zhou, University of Fort Hare

Department of English and Comparative Studies

Nhlanhla Landa, University of Fort Hare

Department of English and Comparative Studies

Baba Tshotsho, University of Fort Hare

Department of English and Comparative Studies

Johan Lubbe, University of the Free State

Department of South African Sign Language and Deaf Studies

Zvinashe Mamvura, University of South Africa

Department of African Languages

Peter Jordan, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Institute for Urban and Regional Research

References

Published
January 1, 2020
Series
International Symposium on Place Names Conference Proceedings
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Date of first publication (11)
2020-01-01

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How to Cite

Loth, C.-R. (Ed.). (2020). Recognition, Regulation, Revitalisation: Place Names and Indigenous Languages (Vols. 4). UJ Press. https://doi.org/10.18820/9781928424697