Beschreibung
This collection brings together contributions from a new wave of research into language, space, and place, at the intersection of various disciplines, from geography to sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. The authors investigate the myriad ways that people conceive ofand thereby describethe world around them, studying the impact these ideas have on their identities, and highlighting the tension between conflicting ontologies of space. It is a timely and invaluable new resource for researchers and students in linguistics, geography, anthropology and communication.
Autorenporträt
Greg Niedt completed a PhD in Communication, Culture, and Media at Drexel University, and is currently a lecturer in the Department of Liberal Arts at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA. Their research is focused on the visibility of minority Discourses in the physical landscape, especially those related to ethnolinguistic and/or queer communities in multicultural cities.
Herstellerkennzeichnung:
Springer Verlag GmbH
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E-Mail: juergen.hartmann@springer.com
