Publication details
Studium jazyka a literárně vědné postupy v sociálně-vědním výzkumu
| Title in English | Literary studies methods in social research |
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Drawing on results of an empirical study conducted in the city of Brno in spring 2010, we try to show how were the interpretation frameworks of the social sciences enriched by the tradition of literature studies, especially thanks to the structuralist method and to the concept of the chronotope. The main research topic was how the specific place – public space in front of the main railway station in Brno – is perceived and experienced by its everyday users. The first of our approaches is based on the qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews. It illustrates how are the narratives on everyday spatial practices structured and framed within this space by shared culturally meaningful binary oppositions. The second approach is inspired by Bachtin's concept of chronotope that (in its modification within the social geography) accentuate inseparability of time and space and their mutual conditionality. The concept brings our attention to the set of temporalities which, in their intersection, form the concrete places. The concept of chronotope is applied in analysis of mental maps, video and photo documentation focused on the people's trajectories, pace, directions, intensity and polyrhythmic integrity of the place surveyed. |
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