Spaces and Meanings: Semantics of the Cultural Landscape

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Spaces and Meanings: Semantics of the Cultural Landscape

Springer, 2019.

Лавренова О. А.

The introduction raises the problem of relationships between culture and
space, here we prove the usage of semiotic concept of the culture as a basic concept
of the research. That part of semiosphere, were the characters are the geographical
locations and their respective names as well as names of water objects, is denoted as
the goal of the study. The author’s definitions of the terms “culture”, “geo-cultural
space” and “cultural landscape” are introduced.

Research target: Earth Sciences Humanities

Language: English

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Spaces and Meanings: Semantics of the Cultural Landscape

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