期刊名称：Collegium : Studies across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences
印刷版ISSN：1796-2986
出版年度：2012
卷号：13
出版社：Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
摘要：Seeking to locate the case studies of Language, Space and Power: Urban Entanglements in the context of recent academic history, this introductory ar ticle explores the manifestations and legacies of the so-called linguistic and spatial turns in urban research. With regard to the linguistic turn, we first illustrate approaches characteristic of structuralis m- inspired urban semiotics and postructuralism-affected discussions of the postmodern urban condition. In these researc h fronts, that were ex tremely fashionable in the late twentieth century, language was adopted as a pivotal metaphorical model to conceptualise the power-embeddedness of urban spaces, processes and identities. More recently, however, the ramifications of the linguistic turn across urban res earch have proliferated as a result of approaches in which specific plac e-bound language practices and language-based representations about cities have been scrutinised. Sharing an understanding of the linguistic realm as a category that is analytically distinct from the social and material realms, we identify methodological orientations (from disc ourse analytic to speech act theoretical frameworks), social s cientific theories (from Lac lau to Lefebvre) and thematic interests (from place naming to interactional uses of spoken language) that have been significant c hannels in re-directing urban sc holars' attention to the conc rete workings of language. As regards the spatial turn, we highlight the relevance of the connectivity-, territoriality-, attachment- and entanglement-focused conceptualisations of space for the study of language-related power issues in urban settings. Finally, we introduce the volume's empiric al articles
