15. The HeiURBAN Database: A Brief and Unconventional Position Piece
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Beatrix Busse
Abstract
This paper illustrates how the model of urbanity (Busse/Warnke 2015) can be realized from the collection of a variety of data types into a database structure. It is also an attempt to give a hands-on illustration and visualization of the data types that may account for the complexity of urban discursive place-making. These include hitherto neglected formats, such as names for WiFi networks (Service Set Identifiers) or #-Twitter data referring to a particular urban space, such as #Brooklyn. For this, the author draws on the dataset of the heiURBAN database, which stores linguistic and other semiotic data collected in selected neighbourhoods of Brooklyn, New York. Another aim of this paper is to show the subjective bias of the urban data collection process and why it is therefore both difficult and complex to account for the social detail(s) that marks urban discursive place-making mechanism in linear handbook formats.
Abstract
This paper illustrates how the model of urbanity (Busse/Warnke 2015) can be realized from the collection of a variety of data types into a database structure. It is also an attempt to give a hands-on illustration and visualization of the data types that may account for the complexity of urban discursive place-making. These include hitherto neglected formats, such as names for WiFi networks (Service Set Identifiers) or #-Twitter data referring to a particular urban space, such as #Brooklyn. For this, the author draws on the dataset of the heiURBAN database, which stores linguistic and other semiotic data collected in selected neighbourhoods of Brooklyn, New York. Another aim of this paper is to show the subjective bias of the urban data collection process and why it is therefore both difficult and complex to account for the social detail(s) that marks urban discursive place-making mechanism in linear handbook formats.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Inhalt V
- Urban Linguistics: Ideas and Anchor Points 1
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I Bezugsfelder der urbanen Linguistik/ Fields of Reference of Urban Linguistics
- 1. Urban Variationist Sociolinguistics 33
- 2. ‘Rural’ and ‘Urban’ in Dialectology 52
- 3. Fundamentals of Urban Semiotics: Exemplified by Examples taken from the Chinese City 74
- 4. Experience as Moving Methodology: Notations on the Study of Urban Diversity 86
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II Kommunikationsraum Stadt/ City as Communicative Space
- 5. Urban Communities of Practice 117
- 6. Neue Dialekte im urbanen Europa 137
- 7. Urbanes Place-Making und Sprechen über Musik 165
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III Mobilität, Fluidität und Konstruktionen in städtischen Zeichenarealen/ Mobility, Fluidity and Constructions in Urban Semiotic Areas
- 8. Mobilities and Mobile Methods 191
- 9. Linguistic Landscapes 218
- 10. Semiotic Landscapes 245
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IV. Historizität der Stadt im Diskurs/ Historicity of the City in Discourse
- 11. Folk Linguistics and the Nostalgia of the Past City 271
- 12. Historical Discourse about Cities 292
- 13. Polyhistorizität im öffentlichen Raum 311
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V Experimente/ Experiments
- 14. Melancholy Objects Remixed: A Multimodal Counterstatement on Photography in Urban Linguistics 333
- 15. The HeiURBAN Database: A Brief and Unconventional Position Piece 394
- Index 415
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Inhalt V
- Urban Linguistics: Ideas and Anchor Points 1
-
I Bezugsfelder der urbanen Linguistik/ Fields of Reference of Urban Linguistics
- 1. Urban Variationist Sociolinguistics 33
- 2. ‘Rural’ and ‘Urban’ in Dialectology 52
- 3. Fundamentals of Urban Semiotics: Exemplified by Examples taken from the Chinese City 74
- 4. Experience as Moving Methodology: Notations on the Study of Urban Diversity 86
-
II Kommunikationsraum Stadt/ City as Communicative Space
- 5. Urban Communities of Practice 117
- 6. Neue Dialekte im urbanen Europa 137
- 7. Urbanes Place-Making und Sprechen über Musik 165
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III Mobilität, Fluidität und Konstruktionen in städtischen Zeichenarealen/ Mobility, Fluidity and Constructions in Urban Semiotic Areas
- 8. Mobilities and Mobile Methods 191
- 9. Linguistic Landscapes 218
- 10. Semiotic Landscapes 245
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IV. Historizität der Stadt im Diskurs/ Historicity of the City in Discourse
- 11. Folk Linguistics and the Nostalgia of the Past City 271
- 12. Historical Discourse about Cities 292
- 13. Polyhistorizität im öffentlichen Raum 311
-
V Experimente/ Experiments
- 14. Melancholy Objects Remixed: A Multimodal Counterstatement on Photography in Urban Linguistics 333
- 15. The HeiURBAN Database: A Brief and Unconventional Position Piece 394
- Index 415