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Tiger in the Corner — Insider Names on Dudley Peninsula Dudley Peninsula Is Part of Kangaroo Island in South Australia MARCH 2015 Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey an initiative of the Australian Academy of Humanities, supported by the Geographical Names Board of NSW Tiger in the Corner — Insider names on Dudley Peninsula Dudley Peninsula is part of Kangaroo Island in South Australia. Dr Joshua Nash, now of the University of New England, conducted a comparative study of Australian island toponymies for his PhD at the University of Adelaide. Dr Nash won the 2011 PA Award for his paper 'Pristine placenaming on Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island', based on that doctoral research. This article is extracted from his award-winning paper. Corner names These toponyms strongly depict two facets of naming: • Commemorative anthroponyms: Clichers Corner, Residents of the Dudley Peninsula have made extensive Dudds Corner use of the generic element corner to identify locations • Event-based names: Stink Corner, Firewater Corner, and as orientation tools. Many of these unofficial corner Pigs Head Corner names have now become official, thanks to extensive local knowledge. The now-official nature of several of Many of the Dudley Peninsula names are indeed these names can be seen in road signs and on official humorous (Stomach Ache Corner, Stink Corner), and may maps, as with Felt Hat Corner and Pigs Head Corner. in some cases be linked to particular historical events (for instance, Staggerjuice Corner was so-named by a church- goer in memory of all the alcohol consumed there). Felt Hat Corner was named by local legend Tiger Simpson. Tiger put his own felt hat on a stick when he was traversing this area so he would know his way back upon his return. The name became well-known, it stuck, and it has been officially signposted. To this day, when the felt hat that hangs on the sign falls off, passionate locals return it to its rightful place. This is a good example of a legend becoming widely known and then represented in the linguistic landscape, with several local customs being maintained because of its acceptance as a literal cultural signpost and metaphorical linguistic marker. Felt Hat Corner (photo: Joshua Nash, 2009) continued on page 6 In this issue: Tiger in the Corner: Dudley Peninsula – 1 • Two ways to do it – 3 • A tribute to Kościuszko – 7 • Where do you live? – 8 • Microtoponymy 2 – 8 • Microtoponyms in Ballarat – 10 • What was that name? – 11 From the Editor We're never quite sure how to We're also pleased that PA Committee member Greg define microtoponymy: whether Windsor has been persuaded to summarise his PhD it's 'names for small features', research for us (page 8). or 'the placenames of a local Readers may be interested to know that Victoria's area', or 'unofficial placenames Register of Geographic Names (VICNAMES) has a new that hardly anybody knows of'. website, much improved for placename searching. Go Whatever the truth of the matter, to: you'll discover that this March issue is one that heavily http://maps.land.vic.gov.au/lassi/VicnamesUI.jsp features microtoponymy. and experiment! And remember that Victoria's Our lead article, from Joshua Nash, is on 'insider Geographic Names News is still available online: the names' on Kangaroo Island, South Australia. We easiest way to find it is to go to the website have the second of Jan Tent's 3-part series on http://www.dtpli.vic.gov.au/ microtoponymy, beginning on page 8. And on page and search for 'names news'. 10, you'll find Ron Woods' report on microtoponyms David Blair in the Victorian town of Ballarat. [email protected] We recommend... Simon Garfield's book On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way it Does. The author examines how maps both relate and realign our history, from the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond. We particularly liked his chapter on Antarctica: 'how explorers found the South Pole without a map, and named the region after their families, friends and enemies.' And we confess that we had no idea that the British Ordnance Survey was spurred by the Jacobite revolt! The paperback was published by Profile Books (London) and released in 2013. A well-earned retirement ANPS Director Dr Jan Tent has announced his retirement from Macquarie University, where he has been part of the Department of Linguistics for many years. Jan began his full-time lecturing at Macquarie in 2002, but had already been an honorary associate of the Department for five years. Previously, he had been a senior lecturer in linguistics at the University of the South Pacific in Suva. While there, he conducted a large-scale survey of language use and attitude as part of his PhD for the University of Otago. Jan has had a long-standing interest in both lexicography and toponymy. He co-edited, with Paul Geraghty and France Mugler, the Macquarie Dictionary of English for the Fiji Islands, released in 2006. He was appointed Director of ANPS in 2007 and has published constantly in the field of toponymy since then. Jan has now retired to Khancoban in the Snowy Mountains. He's looking forward to teaming up with local resident Mark Oldrey and others, to continue research on placenames of the area. And he's promised to keep writing for Placenames Australia: our June issue will contain the third part of his series on 'microtoponymy', and September will feature his article on 'changing placenames'. This newsletter is published quarterly by Editor: David Blair Placenames Australia Inc ABN 39 652 752 594 PO Box 5160 ISSN: 1836-7968 (print) 1836-7976 (online) SOUTH TURRAMURRA NSW 2074 2 Placenames Australia • March 2015 Two ways to do it — a note on toponymic methodology In scientific and social research it is common for a given • place-naming practices and patterns (both temporally discipline to contrast the micro and the macro levels of its and spatially) research domains. On the one hand, you can examine in • regional distributions of certain types of toponym, or depth an individual case; on the other, you can analyse geographic feature patterns of cases. It's rather like the difference between • settlement patterns (both temporally and spatially) reporting the weather or describing the climate. In the • the geomorphology of a region (by concentrating on former, the meteorological characteristics of a given feature types) place and time are described and analysed, whereas • grammar/syntax of toponyms in the latter, the characteristic or prevalent weather • linguistic geography patterns throughout the year of a region are described • the influence of names on property values and analysed. Perhaps a better example is in the field of medicine: the study of a case and the pattern-analysis In addition, quantitative toponymic studies are often of cases are known as diagnostics and epidemiology easier to conduct than qualitative ones. The use of respectively. Social scientists often use the generic terms modern resources such as on-line gazetteers, databases qualitative and quantitative to express a similar (though and statistics software, makes it relatively easy to conduct not identical) contrast in their research methods. quantitative research. Qualitative research usually relies on documentary evidence, evidence that is not always Qualitative research aims to gather an in-depth available or extant. understanding of a particular phenomenon or case. This method investigates the 'why', 'what', 'where', 'when' A problem of terminology and 'how' of a single case or of small focused sample. The ANPS recognises the two research paradigms and The conclusions drawn from such a study cannot sees the wisdom of each bearing its own label. There is, be generalised, although hypotheses about general however, a problem in finding the most appropriate terms application may be suggested; the results of qualitative to represent the qualitative and quantitative approaches. research are often followed up by a quantitative study to find empirical support for hypotheses. Perhaps the most obvious terms to employ are microtoponymy and macrotoponymy. However, both The quantitative method empirically investigates data already have their own specific toponymic senses, and to in a numerical form using statistical, mathematical or employ this pair would introduce unnecessary confusion. computational techniques, and it asks specific, narrow (Microtoponymy concerns itself with placenames for questions in an attempt to discover underlying meanings minor features which tend to be known only to local and patterns of relationships, including classifications of residents, and which are not usually in official use.1) types of phenomena and entities. ANPS has considered other possible candidates: Toponymic research • endotoponymy v exotoponymy (that is, internal as Although toponomy employs both of these research opposed to external) • endoscopic v exoscopic (that is, viewed from the models, it has not often made a conscious or explicit inside as opposed to the outside) distinction between them. Most research papers in • narrow v broad toponymy fall within the qualitative model, answering • discrete v syndetic (or aggregative, or collective) questions about the etymology and meaning of • semasiological v onomasiological (that is, meaning- related as opposed to system-related; see Coates 2013) particular placenames. In other words, the research is predominantly at the micro level, the examination of All of these candidates seem problematic for one discrete cases or toponyms. This is somewhat surprising, reason or another. For want of better terms, ANPS has because toponomy lends itself very readily and logically adopted (at least for the time being) the labels intensive to quantitative analyses. For instance, quantitative and extensive to reflect the qualitative and quantitative analyses can reveal much about: approaches respectively. continued next page Placenames Australia • March 2015 3 ...from previous page Two ways to do it... Intensive toponymy In many cases, answers to some or all of the wh- questions Every placename has a story behind it—the name was may not be found because too long a time has passed bestowed by someone, at a particular time and for a since the naming, and the necessary documentation (if it particular reason, and sometimes the name is changed ever existed) has disappeared.
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