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Drawn Names: The Aesthetics of Linguistic Landscapes and Linguistic Pilgrimage

  • Joshua Nash

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Abstract

In 2008 Norfolk Islander Bev McCoy drew for me a site-specific depiction of the offshore fishing ground name 'Shallow Water'. I explore the ideation and movement of linguistic pilgrimage through naming and explore how this posing is relevant to aesthetic understandings of the study of placenames (toponymy). Toponymy and its site-specificity in terms of drawing as diminished object and the perils of being a spectator to drawing are presented as a creative gesture implicating mobility and emotional interpretations of language and geography.
Original languageEnglish
Pages1-10
Publication statusPublished - 2015
EventDIB 2015: Drawing International Brisbane Symposium 2015 - Brisbane, Australia
Duration: 30 Sept 20152 Oct 2015

Conference

ConferenceDIB 2015: Drawing International Brisbane Symposium 2015
CityBrisbane, Australia
Period30/09/152/10/15

Keywords

  • Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
  • Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
  • Linguistics

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