Plural Toponyms: When Place Names Coexist

Giraut, Frédéric

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“…Toponyms are unique and different from other words in arbitrary language systems because toponyms recollect an event or experience of someone who utilizes them (Radding & Western, 2010). Toponym studies are often mistaken for cross-disciplinary studies, even though linguistic studies consider toponyms as linguistic mapping, a valuable indicator in regional mapping and historical and cultural reconstruction (Giraut, 2020). In addition, toponyms are a sub-study of semantics in linguistics because they concentrate on the meaning of a place or area.…”

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An Ethnosemantic Study of Palu Toponym and Its Association with Natural Hazards

Syamsuddin

Putra

Wulansari

2023

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<p><em>This research investigates how the naming of locations in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia describes the geographical and social conditions in the local area. After the earthquake and tsunami on September 28 2018, in Palu, considerable geographical studies have desired to discover the causality of this catastrophic natural phenomenon. Nevertheless, behind it all, the Kaili tribe, an indigenous tribe on the mainland of Central Sulawesi, believes that several areas in Palu are unfit for habitation because of the history of natural events that have occurred. They sketch this information using toponymy that modern society has often ignored. Moreover, acculturation and globalization have made people overlook local culture and history. The present study operated a different perspective to reveal that the toponymic naming in the Palu area. Those toponyms are derived from the Kaili language reflecting geographical conditions, history and vegetation. The researcher discovered that based on ethnolinguistic fact, several zones were the hotspots of the worst earthquakes and liquefactions and reflected in several toponyms that today's society has forgotten. Using ethnosemantics tracing, historical, and geographical observation and involving cultural and indigenous figures, the researcher answered this phenomenon based on evidence. The implications and results of the findings of this study will be discussed further in the discussion section.</em></p>

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An Ethnosemantic Study of Palu Toponym and Its Association with Natural Hazards

Syamsuddin

Putra

Wulansari

2023

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“…1. The different forms of co-existence and interactions between the official and unofficial urban place names systems (Bigon & Ben Arrous, 2022;Butnaru, 2012;Giraut, 2020;Light & Young, 2014;Mori, 2007;Njoh, 2010;Yeoh, 1992Yeoh, , 2017.…”

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“…Until recently, urban microtoponyms have had only a few principal theorizations which have emerged in critically oriented toponymic scholarship. Frédéric Giraut (2020, p. 2) noted, that “the multiple names of everyday places are largely ignored: streets, landmarks, crossroads, neighborhoods, towns or small regions.” In most cases, the authors discuss the vernacular toponymic aspects only tangentially. For example, in the highly influential work about commemorative place naming, Maoz Azaryahu (1996, p. 313) pointed out that the urban street names “were vernacular,” reflecting geographical orientation, topography, or another local feature.…”

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“…This work introduces a fresh perspective on urban microtoponymy, outlining the conceptual framework for studying urban vernacular place names as new resourceful analytical terrain in the field of critical urban toponymy. To conceptualize urban microtoponymy as a sub‐field, the paper draws upon the critical toponymic theory using the notion of toponymic plurality (Giraut, 2020), or co‐existence of a multiplicity of conflicting place names as “indicators of a plurality of representations and practices.” I argue that urban microtoponymy as a sub‐field of critical place names studies will benefit the whole field, expanding the research scope and pushing intellectual endeavors toward discovering “the intimately tiny” (Massey, 2005, p. 9) toponymic elements of the city and exploring “the role of toponymic practices in constructing the geographical spaces of everyday life” (Rose‐Redwood et al., 2010, p. 467).…”

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Problematizing urban microtoponyms

Basik

2023

Geography Compass

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A spatial perspective on microtoponyms, informal non‐standardized names of small objects and places known to the locals, is an often‐neglected segment of urban political toponymic theory and practice. Though critically‐oriented thinkers have acknowledged the role of vernacular place names in the spatial organization of symbolic cultural landscapes, place‐making processes, and the everyday life of people and their communities, conceptual spatial‐political theorizations on this subject have been relatively rare. Driven upon the critical toponymic theory, this paper aims to delineate a conceptual framework for studying urban microtoponyms as spatial phenomena by integrating the toponymic plurality notion. Based on examples primarily from non‐Western geographical contexts, this paper offers a fresh perspective on urban place naming practices and related spatial processes providing some analytical pathways for critical scholars in urban toponymy and guiding potential empirical investigations in this field.

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“…On the other hand, the limits of the hegemonic functions of place names have also been emphasized by critical toponymists in the contexts of socialism and post-socialism (Chloupek, 2019;Palonen, 2008) as well as colonialism and post-colonialism (Bigon & Njoh, 2015;Ndletyana, 2012). 2 The concept of "plural toponymies" is also important in this respect as it indicates the possibility of the co-existence of vernacular place names along with official place names that are imposed hegemonic actors (Giraut, 2020).…”

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The death of the author in place names: A Barthesian intervention into critical toponymy

Düzgün

2021

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Over the past 2 decades, the critical toponymy literature reached a certain level, both qualitatively and quantitatively, that it is now both possible and necessary to subject the field itself to a critical evaluation. This study aims to make such a critical inquiry by arguing that although there has been important progress in critical toponymy studies, the field still has a tendency to approach place names on the basis of a hierarchy between ‘powerful hegemonic groups’ that control the official naming institutions and ‘weak masses’ who use place names in their everyday lives. This tendency, in turn, limits the critical toponymists by not allowing them to conceive what lies beyond the rejection and acceptance of hegemonic power. Although this article does not propose a clear‐cut solution to this problem, it assumes that critical toponymists may learn from Roland Barthes who attempted to solve similar problems in literature by declaring the death of the author and the birth of the reader.

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Plural Toponyms: When Place Names Coexist

Cited by 8 publications

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An Ethnosemantic Study of Palu Toponym and Its Association with Natural Hazards

An Ethnosemantic Study of Palu Toponym and Its Association with Natural Hazards

Problematizing urban microtoponyms

The death of the author in place names: A Barthesian intervention into critical toponymy

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