Place names – spatial orientation – mental map. Interrelations of language, place names, and space
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https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2018.2.169Keywords:
place names, spatial orientation, cognitive map, place name modell, linguistic relativismAbstract
Space, spatial orientation, and mental maps are closely related to language in several respects: first, in the expression of spatial relationships; second, in referring to spatial categories themselves; third, in linguistic aspects of the frame of reference of orientation; and fourth, in place names that identify and refer to individual concrete places and spatial objects. Lessons drawn from the investigation of spatial language are currently also capitalised on by researchers in the problem area of language and mind. Models based on the mental representations of place names are partly language and culture dependent. Speakers’ knowledge about how reliably place names can be correlated with actual properties of the landscape or whether they should simply be taken to identify its individual components also affects cognition: it tells us how much we rely on them in structuring space and developing a mental map.
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