Tilo Felgenhauer, Jena: „Die versteht Dich, weil sie auch aus Thüringen ist“ – zur Analyse von Raumbezugnahmen in alltäglichen Argumentationen

“She understands you because she comes from Thuringia too” – on the analysis of spatial references in everyday argumentation

One increasingly evident paradigm of human geography considers regions and spatial entities as social, and linguistic, constructions. Currently new theoretical approaches (from philosophy and social theory) and methods of language analysis are being introduced into the discipline.

In particular, theories of argumentation, reasoning and inference provide a promising background for the analysis of both written and oral language. Examples from politics and the media are used to introduce the method and results of carrying out analysis of argumentation from a geographic point of view. Not can only structures of relevance in everyday-language be shown, in terms of the question: what places in which situations are at all worth arguing about? Our common tacit knowledge about the constitution and the shape of regions and places may also be explored by asking about the claims, premises und implicit inferences of spatial argumentation.

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