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Name Games 1: Place Names as Rhetorical Devices
This short communication explores the creation of a new suburb as a crucial strategy in the revitalisation of Port Adelaide, Australia. It contends that the existing suburb names of the area are so stigmatised by the landscape's industrial heritage that the development consortium has elected to create a new suburb rather than embark upon a futile campaign to renegotiate the meaning of these names. Drawing upon discourse analysis and critical landscape theory we contend that place names are rhetorical devices and as such are laden with meaning. As rhetorical devices, place names are neither natural nor neutral. Rather they are instruments of meaning and the ability to control them is directly related to power. This short communication is part of a wider research project on Port Adelaide. It seeks to generate debate amongst landscape academics and practitioners on the politics of landscape revitalisation from an Australian perspective.
Name Games 1: Place Names as Rhetorical Devices
This short communication explores the creation of a new suburb as a crucial strategy in the revitalisation of Port Adelaide, Australia. It contends that the existing suburb names of the area are so stigmatised by the landscape's industrial heritage that the development consortium has elected to create a new suburb rather than embark upon a futile campaign to renegotiate the meaning of these names. Drawing upon discourse analysis and critical landscape theory we contend that place names are rhetorical devices and as such are laden with meaning. As rhetorical devices, place names are neither natural nor neutral. Rather they are instruments of meaning and the ability to control them is directly related to power. This short communication is part of a wider research project on Port Adelaide. It seeks to generate debate amongst landscape academics and practitioners on the politics of landscape revitalisation from an Australian perspective.
Name Games 1: Place Names as Rhetorical Devices
Rofe, Matthew W. (author) / Szili, Gertrude (author)
Landscape Research ; 34 ; 361-370
2009-06-01
10 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
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