2. Creating a Meaningful World: Nature in Name, Metaphor and Myth

doi:10.11647/obp.0206.02

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0206.02

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Copyright

Karen Park; Felice S. Wyndham; Andrew Gosler; John Fanshawe

Published On

2020-05-20

Page Range

pp. 47-68

Print Length

21 pages

2. Creating a Meaningful World

Nature in Name, Metaphor and Myth

Karen Park (author)
Felice S. Wyndham (author)
Andrew Gosler (author)
John Fanshawe (author)

Chapter of: Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto(pp. 47–68)

Chapter 2 uses the linguistic and cultural resources of the Ethno-ornithology World Atlas (EWA) and draws on comparative and historical linguistics, anthropology and biology to investigate the creative processes at work as linguistically diverse communities respond to the natural world through naming, metaphor and myth.

Contributors

Karen Park

(author)

University of Oxford

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4473-077X

Felice S. Wyndham

(author)

Andrew Gosler

(author)

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8074-8064

John Fanshawe

(author)