“Ma sõidan bussiga Tartust Pärnusse” – The Acquisition of Interdisciplinary Space-Related Knowledge through Multimedia Cartography

Abstract

Whenever speakers of the Estonian language express motion events from one place to another, they change the geographic names according to specifically categorised rules of grammar. This fact, which can be confusing for Estonian language learners at the beginning, furthermore bears a high potential for the use of products of geographic visualisation. Therefore, an example of multimedia cartography used to teach linguistic features of Estonian combined with topographical facts about Estonia has been developed in the Geography Department at the Ruhr-University, Germany