Alpinism & Natural Language Processing
You will find a quote in this posting that reads:
“In linguistics and cultural studies, the change of language use over time, special terminology and cultural shifts are of interest. The ”speaking” about mountains is characterised by cultural, historical and social factors; therefore, language use can be viewed as a mirror of these factors. The extra-linguistic world, the essence of a culture, can be reconstructed through analyzing language use within alpine literature in terms of temporal and local specifics that emerged from this typical use of language (Bubenhofer, 2009). For instance, frequent use of personal pronouns and specific intensifiers in texts between 1930 and 1950 can be interpreted as a shift to a more subjective, personal role that mountaineering played in society. In contrary, between 1880 and 1900, the language surface shows less emotionality which probably is a mirror of a period when the moun- tain pioneers claimed more seriousness (Bubenhofer and Schro ̈ter, 2010).”
I thought this might prove interesting to topic map friends who live in areas where mountains and mountain climbing are common.