Geolingual Studies on Urban Space
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-5660-6 (ISBN)
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Bringing together an interdisciplinary range of leading researchers, this book bridges gaps in urban research by combining methods from linguistics, geography and computational humanities and by exploring different data sets to understand the complexities of language behaviour in urban spaces. The equipment and arrangement of space situates where people live and work. It influences mobility, interactions, networks, identities and connectedness, reflected in and reinforced by language: Communities manifest themselves through the choice of language or linguistic variants in multilingual contexts. On the level of discourse, language reveals attitudes towards others as well as perceptions and evaluations of space. Geography can describe the physical space with remote sensing and GIS data. In computational humanities, language models are developed to perform topic modelling and sentiment analysis.
The book demonstrates how established methodologies from across disciplines combined with a broader perspective on established concepts and methodologies from world Englishes will advance and complement linguistic research in this field. Drawing on case studies from various megacities, densely populated city-states and capitals around the world including London, Edinburgh, New York, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Davao City, Accra, and Mexico City, it provides important insights into multilingual urban spaces in terms of new methodological approaches and results.
Carolin Biewer is Professor and Chair of English Linguistics in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Lisa Lehnen is a research fellow in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Ninja Schulz is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Hannes Taubenböck is Head of the Department of Georisks and Civil Security at the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). He also holds the Chair of Global Urbanization and Remote Sensing at the University of Würzburg, Germany.
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1. Geolingual Studies as a new research approach in world Englishes – an introduction
Carolin Biewer, Hannes Taubenböck, Lisa Lehnen, Ninja Schulz
Part I – Urban sociolinguistic approaches to linguistic diversity
2. Identity conceptions, linguistic repertoires, and language attitudes and use in multilingual Singapore: Developments and recent changes
Jakob Leimgruber, Sarah Buschfeld, Peter Siemund
3. The cognitive and social salience of Multicultural London English among the language community of London
Sue Fox, Ruth Kircher
4. Language attitudes in Accra towards Ghanaian Pidgin English and Ghanaian English
Lauryn Akuffo
5. English without bilingualism in Tokyo: Explorations from Ameya-Yokochō and Ueno Keisei Station Patrick Heinrich
Part II – Discursive approaches to the construction of (place) identities
6. Place identities in districts of Davao City and Hong Kong: evaluations in discourse
Sabine Heps, Carolin Biewer, Lisa Lehnen
7. Leisure activities in discourse: District identity formation in Mexico City through discourse
Diana Lynn Diaz
8. Language, migration, and Twitter: Exploring ethnic othering in London
Zuzanna Elliot, Richard Lemoine Rodríguez
9. Regionalising the pandemic – The use of spatial metaphors and toponyms setting the scene in the early days of COVID-19
Dominik Kremer, Tilo Felgenhauer, Andreas Wagner
Part III – Geolingual approaches to social media data
10. Using geolocated social media data to verify the socio-spatial dimension of cities – A case study on English Tweets from New York
Richard Lemoine Rodríguez, Johannes Mast, Carolin Biewer, Hannes Taubenböck, Martin Mühlbauer
11. Exploring Twitter discourse across different districts of Edinburgh during the COVID-19 lockdowns Ninja Schulz, Richard Lemoine Rodríguez
12. Geolocated Twitter data for understanding the relationships between language, topics and mobility: A case study on Nigerian (Pidgin) English in West Africa
Johannes Mast, Dominik Heps, Emmanuel Umaru, Marta Sapena-Moll
13. Future directions in world Englishes and the potential of Geolingual Studies
Carolin Biewer, Hannes Taubenböck, Lisa Lehnen, Ninja Schulz
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.8.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | New Directions in World Englishes Research |
| Zusatzinfo | 17 colour illustrations, 69 B&W illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
| Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-5660-6 / 1399556606 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-5660-6 / 9781399556606 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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