Representations of Poverty and Place Using Geographical Text Analysis to Understand Discourse /

• Main Authors: Paterson, Laura L. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Gregory, Ian N. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Discourse analysis.; Corpora (Linguistics).; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Cities and towns-History.; Sociology, Urban.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Discourse Analysis.; Corpus Linguistics.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Urban History.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

This book explores a novel methodological approach which combines analytical techniques from linguistics and geography to bring fresh insights to the study of poverty. Using Geographical Text Analysis, it maps the discursive construction of poverty in the UK and compares the results to what administ...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Defining and Measuring Poverty
• Chapter 2: Corpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, and Poverty
• Chapter 3: Geographical Information Systems and Textual Sources
• Chapter 4: Conducting GTA using Poverty as a Search Term
• Chapter 5: How to use GTA in discourse analysis
• Chapter 6: Locating (un)employment in the National Press
• Chapter 7: Characterising Poverty in Place: Benefits Receipt in Britain
• Chapter 8: Geography-based Discourses of Poverty
• Conclusions.