What are place names? From where do they originate? How are they structured? What do
they signify? How important are they in our life? This groundbreaking book explores these …

Public transport plays an integral role in urban centres by promoting economic development,
mitigating environmental degradation and fostering social cohesion. It also enables users to …

This paper examines the toponymic heritage used in Kenya's Authoritative Geographic
Information (AGI) toponyms database of 26,600 gazetteer records through documentation …

Abui is a Papuan language spoken in Alor Island, South-East Indonesia. Although there are
rich studies on the Abui language and its structure, research on Abui toponymy, which aids …

This article examines the station names of 142 Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) stations across
Singapore's five fully operational MRT lines using primary sources (digitised newspapers …

Place names do not simply refer to physical locations. They are linguistic symbols full of
connotative meaning, carrying a range of cognitive, social, historical, cultural, and …

The term 'magic'is problematic. Magic studies have rapidly developed in recent decades and
have suggested various ways of understanding the term, especially regarding objects from …

The turn of the 21st century saw an intellectual impetus to renew academic thought on
toponymy, and to move beyond a primarily encyclopedic treatment which had left the …

This paper studies three Singaporean islands (with their original Malay names in brackets):
St. John's Island (Pulau Sakijang Bendera), Sentosa (Pulau Blakang Mati), and Coney …

The intersections between tourism and language have been studied from a largely
sociolinguistic perspective, particularly on the Linguistic Landscapes (LL) of tourist sites. The …