- ISBN: 9783110129564 | 3110129566
- Cover: Nonspecific Binding
- Copyright: 2/6/2015
| Preface | |
| Theory of space: Geography, semiotics, and Marxism | p. 1 |
| Objectivism and subjectivism in spatial studies | p. 3 |
| The sphere of spatial studies | p. 3 |
| The unbridged dichotomy of spatial studies | p. 7 |
| Society, space, and meaning | p. 19 |
| Behavioral geography: A problematic area | p. 19 |
| The analysis of meaning | p. 28 |
| A materialist social semiotics of space | p. 37 |
| The context of the study | p. 45 |
| Land and people | p. 47 |
| The history and geography of Macedonia | p. 47 |
| The research settlements and the regional context | p. 66 |
| Corpus, sample, and sociology | p. 75 |
| The semiotic corpus and the statistical sample | p. 75 |
| The sociology of environmental conception | p. 81 |
| The corpus and its sociological characteristics | p. 86 |
| Corpus stratification, questionnaires, and methodology | p. 93 |
| The social construction and evaluation of space | p. 99 |
| The conceptual construction of regional space | p. 101 |
| Subjective settlement and involvement region | p. 101 |
| Involvement region and social practices | p. 105 |
| Regional spaces, regional structures, and the city-country opposition | p. 118 |
| Social groups and the geometry of the regions | p. 126 |
| Settlement hierarchy and the nature of judgment | p. 136 |
| Space and the fluctuation of sentiment | p. 147 |
| The experience of space: Beyond phenomenology | p. 147 |
| The paths of regional identity | p. 158 |
| The sociological logic of the semiotic universe | p. 170 |
| A multitude of spaces within the same space | p. 177 |
| Global, fragmented, and composite space | p. 177 |
| The semiotic reality of analytical spaces | p. 181 |
| Autonomous sociospatial groups and conceptual spaces: Towards an extension of Marxist theory | p. 187 |
| The thematic code structure of spatial micro-discourses | p. 195 |
| Isomorphism and divergence between analytical spaces: A widening of the geographical and semiotic views | p. 198 |
| Talking about space | p. 207 |
| Discourse analysis and the region | p. 209 |
| The 32 modes of apprehending the region | p. 209 |
| The two aggregate models of regional space | p. 217 |
| The discursive regularities of regional discourse and the fundamental modes of conceiving the region | p. 225 |
| Richness of regional discourse | p. 232 |
| Complexity of regional discourse | p. 236 |
| Relevance of regional discourse | p. 245 |
| Ideological models of the region | p. 249 |
| Discursive habits of the social groups | p. 249 |
| Regional models | p. 257 |
| Envisaging the future | p. 267 |
| Imagining space | p. 275 |
| Mental maps revisited | p. 277 |
| Surface and deep structures of the sketch maps | p. 277 |
| Sketch map styles | p. 291 |
| Deep spatial structures | p. 298 |
| The connections between map structures | p. 307 |
| Spatial logics and spatial universals | p. 310 |
| Regional images | p. 321 |
| The psychological nature of mental images | p. 321 |
| Introspective signifier: Gestalt or Euclidean? | p. 334 |
| Regional images: The signifier | p. 342 |
| Regional images: The signified | p. 352 |
| Geographical accuracy | p. 357 |
| The regional point of view: Orientation and perspective | p. 357 |
| Orientational and metric geographical accuracy | p. 367 |
| Topological and configuration accuracy | p. 371 |
| Geometric accuracy | p. 375 |
| Conclusion: The social semiotics of space | p. 385 |
| Society and spatial semiosis | p. 387 |
| Social regulation and sociospatial groups | p. 387 |
| Social regulation and the relative autonomy of semiosis | p. 395 |
| Semiotics of the region | p. 405 |
| Poetics of the region | p. 412 |
| Notes | p. 419 |
| References | p. 429 |
| Index | p. 441 |
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