Assertion: toponymy | /r/CapableOf | have on conceptualization
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text: With close attention to the diarios's negotiation of a European toponymic heritage and the toponymies and vocabularies of the various ethnic groups in the Caribbean Basin, GuPauskyte refutes the theory that Columbus's language of naming was "a rigid instrument" that "carved, unerringly, the shapes of European visions onto silent and passive landscapes of the Americas" (5) and draws out the impact--largely ignored by the majority of colonial and postcolonial critics--that Taino language and toponymy had on Columbus's exploration and conceptualization of American lands.