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TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring Qualitative Geographies in Large Volumes of Digital Text
T2 - Placing Tourists, Travelers, and Inhabitants in the English Lake District
AU - Gregory, Ian
AU - Smail, Robert
AU - Taylor, Joanna
AU - Butler, James
PY - 2024/10/20
Y1 - 2024/10/20
N2 - Thus far, approaches to analyzing geographies in large collections of digital texts have used coordinate-based locations derived from toponyms (place names). Although this approach provides a useful starting point, it ignores both nontoponym references to place and textual structure while stressing Euclidean space. This article addresses these issues. Focusing on a corpus of writing about the English Lake District before 1900, it explores the different geographies associated with tourists, travelers, and inhabitants. Alongside toponyms, we identify the concept of a geo-noun to associate place with geographical features. Sense of place is then identified using the adjectives, nouns, and verbs that writers associate with locations and locales. This methodology allows us to identify and define places described in large volumes of digital text both holistically and textually.
AB - Thus far, approaches to analyzing geographies in large collections of digital texts have used coordinate-based locations derived from toponyms (place names). Although this approach provides a useful starting point, it ignores both nontoponym references to place and textual structure while stressing Euclidean space. This article addresses these issues. Focusing on a corpus of writing about the English Lake District before 1900, it explores the different geographies associated with tourists, travelers, and inhabitants. Alongside toponyms, we identify the concept of a geo-noun to associate place with geographical features. Sense of place is then identified using the adjectives, nouns, and verbs that writers associate with locations and locales. This methodology allows us to identify and define places described in large volumes of digital text both holistically and textually.
KW - English Lake District
KW - digital texts
KW - geographical text analysis
KW - place
KW - spatial networks
KW - travel writing
U2 - 10.1080/24694452.2024.2369593
DO - 10.1080/24694452.2024.2369593
M3 - Journal article
VL - 114
SP - 1985
EP - 2009
JO - Annals of the American Association of Geographers
JF - Annals of the American Association of Geographers
SN - 2469-4460
IS - 9
ER -