Author(s): Peter Repolusk
Journal: Dela
ISSN 0354-0596
Issue: 25;
Start page: 87;
Date: 2006;
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Keywords: population geography | census | ethnic structure | Slovenia
ABSTRACT
Language is without any doubt a societal phenomenon, which is in many more ways related to space. While francophone, anglophone and Spanish geography have developed a kind of language geography or geolinguistics as a subdiscipline of geography, geographers in German-speaking countries pay some attention to this fact only within ethnic geography. The paper highlights some more important spatial aspects of language and proposes to regard language geography as a subdiscipline of cultural geography which has to co-operate closely with linguistics and history.
Journal: Dela
ISSN 0354-0596
Issue: 25;
Start page: 87;
Date: 2006;
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DOWNLOAD PDF Original pageKeywords: population geography | census | ethnic structure | Slovenia
ABSTRACT
Language is without any doubt a societal phenomenon, which is in many more ways related to space. While francophone, anglophone and Spanish geography have developed a kind of language geography or geolinguistics as a subdiscipline of geography, geographers in German-speaking countries pay some attention to this fact only within ethnic geography. The paper highlights some more important spatial aspects of language and proposes to regard language geography as a subdiscipline of cultural geography which has to co-operate closely with linguistics and history.