Mapping in process: discourse analysis of the Alpine Club’s periodicals

Ounoughi, Samia

doi:10.1080/13645145.2020.1862953

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“…In order to improve cartographic knowledge, the Alpine Club and continental clubs encouraged their members to draw up and publish maps themselves. These maps, often of a very high quality but limited to a restricted area, were then stored in a club library and made available to other members [30][31][32].…”

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“…It is clear that the trendsetters of peak bagging also came from privileged social backgrounds. Munro was a landowner from a noble Scottish family Note 31 . Bob and George Marshall were raised in a very wealthy family, their father being a renowned constitutional lawyer, whose fortune they inherited in 1929.…”

Section: The Popularization Of Leisure and Outdoors Recreation (1950s...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It should be noted that the individual values of sex ratio in each list were always very close to each other. 31 According to Dempster, until 1939, all but one of the Munroists belonged to the Scottish Mountaineering Club. Given the club's classist tradition, we can assume that they belonged to a privileged social milieu.…”

Section: The Popularization Of Leisure and Outdoors Recreation (1950s...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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This paper explores the history of peak bagging, a form of mountaineering with a distinct ethos based on the concept of summit list. Despite its steady expansion since its inception in Scotland in 1891, this discipline, which now counts tens of thousands of practitioners worldwide, has been surprisingly neglected by researchers. The initial section of the article examines the historical context of peak bagging's emergence from the late nineteenth-century British mountaineering milieu, as well as its international development in the early twentieth century. The text then proceeds to scrutinize the impact of the popularization of outdoor recreational activities in the decades following the end of the Second World War. I will subsequently demonstrate how the development of modern cartography, global positioning system, and, most importantly, the advent of the Internet, have given peak bagging its current form. In the next section, I’ll consider the prevailing trends within the discipline, with a particular focus on the race for records, be they speed records or the achievement of increasingly ambitious lists. The paper will conclude with a review of the principal challenges currently facing peak bagging.

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Referential conventions as compromise

Ounoughi

2023

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This chapter explores reference in the case of oronyms, that is, proper nouns which designate portions of mountainous relief. As a linguistic function, reference binds a linguistic sign to an extra-linguistic entity. How is this function initiated and how does it operate? I argue that oronyms create referents, the geographical objects speakers create by naming a portion of the relief. Likewise, humans can cognitively divide a spatial continuum to comprehend it better. Oronyms emerge from the naming process I call “toponymation”. They design (create) and designate (name) a referent which has fleeting contours and is thus difficult to retrieve. I explore oronyms in a corpus of alpine travel narratives to identify what criteria are necessary to reach towards what I call “referential efficiency”.

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Climbing summits: when exception becomes the rule. A linguistic approach

Ounoughi

2020

Studies in Travel Writing

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Mapping in process: discourse analysis of the Alpine Club’s periodicals

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

The history of peak bagging

The history of peak bagging

Referential conventions as compromise

Climbing summits: when exception becomes the rule. A linguistic approach

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