Meaning and Geography

The Social Conception of the Region in Northern Greece

Alexandros P. Lagopoulos, Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9783110129564
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110871425
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• Preface
• Part I Theory of space: Geography, semiotics, and Marxism
• Chapter 1 Objectivism and subjectivism in spatial studies
• 1.1. The sphere of spatial studies
• 1.2. The unbridged dichotomy of spatial studies
• Chapter 2 Society, space, and meaning
• 2.1. Behavioral geography: A problematic area
• 2.2. The analysis of meaning
• Chapter 3 A materialist social semiotics of space
• Part II The context of the study
• Chapter 4 Land and people
• 4.1. The history and geography of Macedonia
• 4.2. The research settlements and the regional context
• Chapter 5 Corpus, sample, and sociology
• 5.1. The semiotic corpus and the statistical sample
• 5.2. The sociology of environmental conception
• 5.3. The corpus and its sociological characteristics
• 5.4. Corpus stratification, questionnaires, and methodology
• Part III The social construction and evaluation of space
• Chapter 6 The conceptual construction of regional space
• 6.1. Subjective settlement and involvement region
• 6.2. Involvement region and social practices
• 6.3. Regional spaces, regional structures, and the city-country opposition
• 6.4. Social groups and the geometry of the regions
• 6.5. Settlement hierarchy and the nature of judgment
• Chapter 7 Space and the fluctuation of sentiment
• 7.1. The experience of space: Beyond phenomenology
• 7.2. The paths of regional identity
• 7.3. The sociological logic of the semiotic universe
• Chapter 8 A multitude of spaces within the same space
• 8.1. Global, fragmented, and composite space
• 8.2. The semiotic reality of analytical spaces
• 8.3. Autonomous sociospatial groups and conceptual spaces: Towards an extension of Marxist theory
• 8.4. The thematic code structure of spatial micro-discourses
• 8.5. Isomorphism and divergence between analytical spaces: A widening of the geographical and semiotic views
• Part IV Talking about space
• Chapter 9 Discourse analysis and the region
• 9.1. The 32 modes of apprehending the region
• 9.2. The two aggregate models of regional space
• 9.3. The discursive regularities of regional discourse and the fundamental modes of conceiving the region
• 9.4. Richness of regional discourse
• 9.5. Complexity of regional discourse
• 9.6. Relevance of regional discourse
• Chapter 10 Ideological models of the region
• 10.1. Discursive habits of the social groups
• 10.2. Regional models
• 10.3. Envisaging the future
• Part V Imagining space
• Chapter 11 Mental maps revisited
• 11.1. Surface and deep structures of the sketch maps
• 11.2. Sketch map styles
• 11.3. Deep spatial structures
• 11.4. The connections between map structures
• 11.5. Spatial logics and spatial universals
• Chapter 12 Regional images
• 12.1. The psychological nature of mental images
• 12.2. Introspective signifier: Gestalt or Euclidean?
• 12.3. Regional images: The signifier
• 12.4. Regional images: The signified
• Chapter 13 Geographical accuracy
• 13.1. The regional point of view: Orientation and perspective
• 13.2. Orientational and metric geographical accuracy
• 13.3. Topological and configuration accuracy
• 13.4. Geometric accuracy
• Part VI Conclusion: The social semiotics of space
• Chapter 14 Society and spatial semiosis
• 14.1. Social regulation and sociospatial groups
• 14.2. Social regulation and the relative autonomy of semiosis
• 14.3. Semiotics of the region
• 14.4. Poetics of the region
• Notes
• References
• Index