Representations of Poverty and Place

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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 administrative data reveal. The analysis draws together qualitative and quantitative techniques from corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, Geographical Information Science, and the spatial humanities. By identifying the place-names that occur within close proximity to search terms associated with to poverty it shows how different newspapers use place to foreground different aspects of poverty (including employment, housing, money, and benefits), and how the London-centric nature of newspaper reporting dominates the discursive construction of UK poverty. This book demonstrates how interdisciplinary research methods can illuminate complex social issues and will appeal to researchers in a number of disciplines from sociology, geography and the spatial humanities, economics, linguistics, health, and public policy, in addition to policymakers and practitioners.


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 administrative data reveal. The analysis draws together qualitative and quantitative techniques from corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, Geographical Information Science, and the spatial humanities. By identifying the place-names that occur within close proximity to search terms associated with to poverty it shows how different newspapers use place to foreground different aspects of poverty (including employment, housing, money, and benefits), and how the London-centric nature of newspaper reporting dominates the discursive construction of UK poverty. This book demonstrates how interdisciplinary research methods can illuminate complex social issues and will appeal to researchers in a number of disciplines from sociology, geography and the spatial humanities, economics, linguistics, health, and public policy, in addition to policymakers and practitioners.
Investigates whether discourses of poverty are geographically located and whether these locations actually refer to the most statistically-deprived areas Introduces a new methodological approach, Geographical Text Analysis, that combines techniques from corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, Geographical Information Science, and the spatial humanities Demonstrates that critical discourse analysis can be expanded beyond qualitative analysis and can benefit from an awareness of geography Taking poverty as a case study, it challenges the notion that Geographical Information Science is restricted to quantitative data

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Laura L Paterson

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corpus linguistics geoparsing measuring poverty unemployment welfare discourses linguistic GIS discourses of poverty Geographical Text Analysis spatial humanities Geographical Information Science Breadline Britain Carstairs scores critical discourse analysis (CDA) Natural Language Processing newspaper corpus

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“This book stands out because of its interdisciplinary nature and serves as a useful guide for a wide range of students and researchers.” (Jialei Li, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, September 20, 2019)
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