Putting Geographical Information Science in Place – Towards Theories of Platial Information and Platial Information Systems

Mocnik, Franz-Benjamin

doi:10.1177/03091325221074023

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“…We then show that the lexical properties and relations connecting place names can be modelled by integrating this multi-modal model (DRT plus syntax) with a frame semantics analysis. We therefore show that our model of “place” can pave the way for a novel, inter-disciplinary approach to platial research ( Tenbrink, 2020 ).…”

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“…Sydney and Pitt Street are the place names that allow individuals to refer to these places. Instead, (3) describes some boys playing in a nameless park, i.e., a location introduced in discourse without a specific “platial” (i.e., place-like, Tenbrink, 2020 ) status. Therefore, (1)–(2) are sentences offering semantic information about two closely related and unique places; (3) offers information about some non-specific location identified as a park.…”

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Place and place names: a unified model

Ursini,

Zhang

2023

Front. Psychol.

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The goal of this paper is to offer a unified account of Place as a central theoretical notion across different disciplines. We show that while psychology, geography and other sciences have been converging to a unified view of this notion, linguistics still offers a fragmented perspective. Consequently, place names lack a full-fledged analysis that connects this category to the psychological concept of place. We propose to overcome this impasse by introducing a multi-modal Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) account of place as a conceptual construct and place concepts as specific instances of this construct. We show that current variants of DRT permit us to model place names and their senses, i.e., the meaning(s) that individuals associate with Sydney. We then model non-linguistic place concepts, i.e., the mental representation(s) that individuals can have of the city carrying this name. We present a model of the relation between linguistic meaning and conceptual content via the notion of anchoring relations applied to place. We pair this formal treatment with a morpho-syntactic account of place names building on current generative syntax treatments of proper names. Once we have a morpho-syntactic and semantic model of place names, we use a frame semantics treatment to account for lexical relations among place names. We test the overarching model on a set of recalcitrant problems afflicting current linguistic and multi-disciplinary treatments of place. These are the grammatical complexity and lexical content of place names, place concepts and their networks, and inter-subjective, communicative models of place in discourse. By solving these problems, our account integrates several frameworks (DRT, conceptual analysis, generative syntax, frame semantics) and connects several disciplines (linguistics, psychology, geographic information science, communication models) via a novel, multi-modal account of place. We conclude by discussing the theoretical and empirical import of these results.

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Place and place names: a unified model

Ursini,

Zhang

2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…We agree with this statement, although we also emphasize the need of concurrently collecting the spatial organization of our surroundings, cultural context, and immediate sensory perceptions to better understand the individual–place exposure. The interest of GIScience scholars in place‐based approaches, see for example, the PLATIAL symposium series (Mocnik & Westerholt, 2022; Westerholt & Mocnik, 2019; Westerholt et al, 2018a), and place‐related theoretical research (Mocnik, 2022) has recently been growing. Yet, studies that employ data produced and modeled by subjective, experiential, and relational aspects of place within the field are scarce.…”

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Emotive facets of place meet urban analytics

Acedo

González‐Pérez

Granell

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Transactions in GIS

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The lack of a well‐established and unified place theory across disciplines is decelerating its formalization, evolution, and especially its pragmatic implications and applicability. In this article, we identify research gaps in the emotive facets of place scholarship. We found that it: (1) rarely joins physical, social, and individual variables in the same model; (2) omits the immediately perceived and sensory dimensions; (3) disregards the analysis of how individual–place emotive relationships vary across time; and (4) overlooks the difficulties of reducing multifaceted emotive facets of place into geographic features. Next, we examine these research gaps through the lens of technology‐based advancements in urban analytics. Finally, we discuss the need to combine social‐oriented research and (spatial) data‐driven disciplines to enrich and expand the research area of emotive facets of place and connected disciplines.

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“…In addition to these facts and based on the previous experience of the reader, the description also suggests moods and a sense of place. For if we have already visited places to which a similar description would apply, we enrich the mental image of the place described with these moods and the sense of place of similar places that we have already experienced (cf., Mocnik, 2022).…”

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On the representation of places

Mocnik

2023

GeoJournal

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The reasons for representing places are manifold, and so are the ways in which they are represented. Travel guides, music, and paintings give an impression of often distant places, and scientific texts seek to represent places and their context objectively. By going beyond the existing semantic discourse on representations and focussing on places more specifically, this article seeks a better understanding of the representations of places. First, naturally occurring representations are discussed as the result of the patterns that are formed by place-making and the very being of a place, such as archaeological finds and traditions. Subsequently, I argue that many of the natural as well as non-natural representations can be understood as ‘representation-as’ in Goodman’s and Elgin’s sense, because they represent places as part of a genre, for example, as a tourist attraction or a retreat. This understanding facilitates the conceptualization of individual representations and their placement in the overall context, which in turn helps laying the foundation for a conceptual framework for ‘platial’ information.

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Putting Geographical Information Science in Place – Towards Theories of Platial Information and Platial Information Systems

Cited by 10 publications

References 128 publications

Place and place names: a unified model

Place and place names: a unified model

Emotive facets of place meet urban analytics

On the representation of places

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