New Directions in Linguistic Geography: Exploring Articulations of Space - Hardcover

by Greg Niedt (Editor)

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 of--and thereby describe--the world around them, studying the impact these ideas have on their identities, and highlighting the tension between conflicting ontologies of space.

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This collection brings together research in a new interdisciplinary wave of research into language, space, and place, at the intersection of various disciplines, form geography to sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. The authors investigate the myriad ways that people conceive of--and thereby describe--the world around them, studying the impact these ideas have on their identities, and highlighting the tension between conflicting ontologies of space.

Author Biography

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.