Visual and Linguistic Representations of Places of Origin An Interdisciplinary Analysis

This book is about the representations - both visual and linguistic - which people give of their own places of origin. It examines the drawings of interviewees who were asked to draw their own place of origin on a white A3 sheet, using pencil or colour, according to their choice. If they were born i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pozzato, Maria Pia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2018, 2018
Edition:1st ed. 2018
Series:Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; Maria Pia Pozzato
  • Part I : Maps, Place of Origin, Identity: Underlying Cultural Models
  • Inter Media Editing in the Representations of Places of Origin; Enzo D’Armenio.- The Representation of the Places of Origin: a Geographical Perspective; Emanuele Frixa.- Navigating Maps of Memories; Federico Montanari
  • Part II : A Case-Study
  • Self-mapping and Construction of the Identity: the Case-study of Two Twin Girls between Past, Present and Future; Paola Donatiello
  • Part III: Dataset Analysis
  • Geographical Imagination and Memory: maps, places, itineraries; Alessandra Bonazzi
  • Maps of Early Childhood Places or Self Maps? A Graphic and Conversational Analysis; Giulia Mazzeo
  • Into the Map: the Re-enactment of Experience in Sign Languages’ Representation of Places of Origin; Margherita Murgiano
  • The Role of Perception in the Representation of Places of Origin. Some Remarks on Movement; Giulia Nardelli
  • Genres of maps of places of origin. A Semiotic Survey; Maria Pia Pozzato.