Lexical Semantics: Mapping Gender and Cultural Geography in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Speculative Fiction

Walls of the Tongue: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed

“Good” science fiction, if one may be allowed to propose such a definition, is that which transports its readers out of the banal and ordinary, into the world of the what if? and the alien. Writers of good science fiction naturally differ in their implementation of this, but some have opted to employ the more sophisticated tools of linguistics, constructing exotic alien languages or fragments t...

Cultural and Social Geography

Understanding the Epistemological Consequences of Governmentality Concept in Cultural Geography

Introduction: The concept of governmentality was first proposed by Michel Foucault in 1978; Includes the study of techniques, processes, and approaches in which governments control all aspects of citizens' lives. The formulation of this concept in the humanities and social sciences, including cultural geography, has epistemological consequences which have changed cultural geography's position a...

Cultural Geography Model Validation

In the current warfighting environment, the military needs robust modeling and simulation (M&S) to support Irregular Warfare (IW) analysis across the range of tactical, operational, and strategic levels of warfare to help inform decisions concerning operations within the IW environment. In support of this need, the military requires a responsive family of Models, Methods, and Tools (MMT) able t...

Mapping Multilingual Lexical Semantics for Knowledge Organization Systems

Purpose – The study aims to investigate, through mapping analysis, the operation of knowledge organization systems (KOS) in different languages (English and Chinese), the types of term equivalence and the degree of similarity between different conceptual structures, and issues related thereto. Design/methodology/approach – Terms are selected from the Art & Architecture Thesaurus developed by Ge...