Beschreibung
This book is a first comprehensive reader on the topic of exonyms. It aims
to highlight the exonym question in general from a multi- and
interdisciplinary perspective. It examines the benefits of exonyms, the
current trends of exonym use, and the standardisation efforts related to
exonyms on the national as well as on the international (UN) level. It is
supplemented by a bibliography of further important reference works. Most
authors are members of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical
Names (UNGEGN), more specifically of its Working Group on Exonyms.
Peter Jordan is atlas editor and cultural and political geographer at the
Austrian Institute of East and Southeast European Studies in Vienna
(Austria) and teaches at the universities of Vienna, Klagenfurt, Rijeka
and Cluj-Napoca. Within the United Nations Group of Experts on
Geographical Names (UNGEGN) he co-convenes the Working Group on Exonyms.
Milan Orozen Adamic was researcher and editor at the Anton Melik
Geographical Institute, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian
Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and is now Slovenia’s
ambassador in Croatia. Within the United Nations Group of Experts on
Geographical Names (UNGEGN) he convenes the Working Group on Exonyms.
Paul Woodman is Secretary of the United Kingdom Permanent Committee on
Geographical Names and has been a member of UNGEGN for three decades. He
has a particular interest in exonyms and in the political and cultural
aspects of toponymy.
