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A Typology for Evaluating Language Maps

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Abstract

Language is a complex social phenomenon, and its spatial characteristics can be efficiently and powerfully represented through maps. Although language maps are widespread, there has until recently been little reflection on the act of language mapping, and this domain continues to lack coherence. This article proposes and delineates an evaluative language mapping typology. Using open-ended questions, this tool facilitates analysis and description of key aspects of language maps: technical set-up, context and theme, language map type, data, visualizations and representational strategies, and overall impact. The fine-grained evaluation achieved through this process enables people to build language maps more reflectively.

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Acknowledgments

The authors recognize the foundational and increasingly diverse work in language mapping that has taken place up to the present day, and the developing body of reflection on the practice. In our development of the Evaluative Language Mapping Typology, we are grateful for insights shared by students who applied the Typology in undergraduate and graduate seminars; for members of the Nunaliit Language Mappers (NunaLang) and Endangered Language Knowledge and Technology (ELK-Tech) research groups at Carleton University, who have provided a stimulating environment for the incubation of theory-building and practices in language mapping; and for the support of the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre (GCRC), whose activities in cybercartography, as realized in the Nunaliit Atlas Framework, have enabled us to apply our ideas to the creation and building of a growing number of language atlases.

This research was supported through an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (Anonby, 2016–2018) and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant #435-2021-0794, “An Atlas of the Languages of Iran” (Anonby et al., 2021–2026).

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    Stanley D Brunn

  2. Deutscher Sprachatlas, Marburg University, Marburg, Hessen, Germany

    Roland Kehrein

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Stone, A., Anonby, E. (2022). A Typology for Evaluating Language Maps. In: Brunn, S.D., Kehrein, R. (eds) Handbook of the Changing World Language Map. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73400-2_235-1

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