Preliminary communication

https://doi.org/10.21857/y7v64twjey

Ethnolinguistic studies and GIS (linguistic geography and ethnographic cartography)

Dunja Brozović Rončević ; Sveučilište u Zadru Odjel za etnologiju i antropologiju
Ivana Štokov orcid.org/0000-0002-7171-7522 ; Sveučilište u Zadru Odjel za etnologiju i antropologiju

Abstract

This paper concisely explains the possibilities of using a geographic
information system (GIS) in ethnolinguistic research, specifically in linguistic
geography and ethnological cartography. The role of a GIS as a software tool
for the mapping of spatial and non-spatial ethnographic and linguistic data is
pointed out. The authors explain the different criteria for selecting network points
in developing a representative map of Croatia that would provide opportunities
for exemplary cartographic representation of Croatian ethnolinguistic diversity.
Although both linguistic geography and ethnological cartography in Croatia have
long and fruitful traditions, no attempt to integrate and compare data collected
within these two disciplines has been attempted in Croatia so far, unlike in other
European countries. Therefore, in this regard our ethnolinguistic atlas of Croatia
indisputably represents an innovation.

Keywords

geographic information system (GIS); linguistic geography; ethnographic cartography; ethnolinguistics

Hrčak ID:

186146

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/186146

Publication date:

1.9.2017.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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