IGU-ICA Joint Commission on Toponymy
7 Aug 2013 (Wed), 8:00 - 17:30 Room 555B
Abstracts
Session 1 08:00-09:30
Chair: Prof Peter Jordan (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
- Prof. Palagiano: The Changing Toponymy: The Place Names and their Vitality pdf
- Dr. Siniscalchi: Traveling through the place-names. Methodological approach for the development of a geo-atlas of toponyms pdf
- Dr. Reinsma: Degrees of precision in toponyms containing wind directions
Session 2 10:00-11:30
Chair: Dr Kohei Watanabe (Teikyo University, Japan)
- Prof. Imazato: Naming Methods of Folk Agricultural Plot Names: A Connection between Geography and Cognitive Linguistics pdf
- Prof. Rodriguez / Nieto / Lacasta: Etude des toponymes en rapport a la nature du sol. Le cas de l'expression de “bourbier”, “marais” dans la province de Cuenca (Espagne) pdf
- Mr. Utama: Identification Villages Characteristics Based on Toponymy Method ( Case Study : Musi Banyuasin Regency, South Sumatera Province, Indonesia)
- Ms. Aizholova / Abdreeva: Features of toponyms forming of Alakol basin of Kazakhstan pdf
Session 3 14:00-15:30
Chair: Prof Sungjae Choo (Kyung Hee University, Korea)
- Mr. Wilson: Islands in the Crosshairs: Media Representations of Territorial Disputes in Asia
- Dr. Robinson: Cataloguing Contested Terrain: How Libraries Identify Disputed Territories
- Prof. Huang: The spatial politics of Street Naming in Taiwan:
Session 4 16:00-17:30
Chair: Prof Cosimo Palagiano (University of Rome, Italy)
- Prof. Jordan: Is 'exonym' an appropriate term for names of features beyond any sovereignty? pdf
- Prof. Choo: Emotional ties and the name of a sea: Results of a preliminary survey pdf
- Dr. Kim: The Confucian Transformation of Toponyms and the Coexistence of Contested Toponyms in Korea pdf (external site)
- Prof. Tanabe / Watanabe: Standardisation of Place Names in Countries Influenced by the Chinese Writing System pdf
