eprintid: 30106
rev_number: 41
eprint_status: archive
userid: 5961
dir: disk0/00/03/01/06
datestamp: 2021-07-07 13:58:42
lastmod: 2021-07-14 12:21:21
status_changed: 2021-07-07 13:58:42
type: doctoralThesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Berberich, Kristin
title: Discursive construction of neighborhood across Brooklyn: A corpus-ethnographic approach
title_de: Diskursive Konstruktion von Nachbarschaft in Brooklyn: ein korpus-ethnographischer Ansatz
subjects: ddc-300
subjects: ddc-360
subjects: ddc-370
subjects: ddc-390
subjects: ddc-400
subjects: ddc-420
subjects: ddc-710
subjects: ddc-900
subjects: ddc-970
divisions: i-713000
divisions: i-90001
adv_faculty: af-09
cterms_swd: Sprache
cterms_swd: Diskurs
cterms_swd: Raum
cterms_swd: Ort
cterms_swd: Urbanität
cterms_swd: Korpuslinguistik
abstract: This dissertation investigates the discursive construction of neighborhood using a corpus-ethnographic approach. It explores various degrees of inter-personal, inter-spatial, and cross-genre variation that create an intricate picture of neighborhood discourse and of semiotic practices used in (sub-) urban space. Different sub-corpora containing different text types that present a social actor-centric viewpoint on neighborhood were compiled and analyzed for this project. These consist of interviews with social actors conducted in the street or during ethnographic fieldwork in areas along Bedford Avenue in the borough of Brooklyn, New York; in-depth interviews with local stakeholders, texts from neighborhood organization websites, five years of press releases from Brooklyn Borough Hall, and online restaurant reviews. Taken together, these corpora provide a heterogeneous picture of discursive neighborhood construction. This study extends previous work on neighborhoods, as well as on language used in urban space, to highlight how crucial ethnographic fieldwork and participant observation are for contextualization and thick description of the findings, especially when coming from a quantitative angle. This level of analysis also highlights the need to look beyond definitions of neighborhood that focus on the social or spatial dimensions of the concept only, introducing a set of six dimensions that create the discursive field of the neighborhood. Ultimately, what these insights reveal is that an integrative view of the micro- and macro-levels of discourse is vital to the analysis of urban spaces.
date: 2021
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00030106
ppn_swb: 1762473151
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-301062
date_accepted: 2021-04-22
advisor: HASH(0x558eaa689610)
language: eng
bibsort: BERBERICHKDISCURSIVE2021
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
related_url_url: https://doi.org/10.11588/data/KM65N4
related_url_type: research_data
citation:   Berberich, Kristin  (2021) Discursive construction of neighborhood across Brooklyn: A corpus-ethnographic approach.  [Dissertation]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/30106/1/Berberich_Discursive%20construction%20of%20neighborhood_heiDOK-1.pdf