We are delighted to announce that the first edited volume on “Geolingual Studies on Urban Space” will be published by Edinburgh University Press as part of the series New Directions in World Englishes Research in August 2026. The volume is edited by Carolin Biewer, Lisa Lehnen, Ninja Schulz and Hannes Taubenböck.

The volume combines methods from linguistics, geography and computational humanities to integrate the complexities of urban spaces into world Englishes research and provides case studies from various megacities, densely populated city-states and capitals around the world including London, Edinburgh, New York, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Davao City, Accra, and Mexico City.

Please see for more information on the book content: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-geolingual-studies-on-urban-space.html

We would like to thank all contributors who made this project possible.

This volume is one outcome of our Geolingual studies project, where the description of the physical urban environment (e.g. by remotely sensed data) is complemented by the linguistic assessment of social networks, identity constructions, discourses and the perception of space in a global and culture-specific context. Researchers from different fields (from the Department of English linguistics, the Earth Observation Research Hub, the German Aerospace Center, among others) establish theories and methodologies that lend themselves to comparative analyses of language and space. For an overview, please see here: https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/gls

This volume relates to other studies already published by the Geolingual Studies team. See e.g.:

• Online Concerns About Urban Heat: Social Media, Temperature, and Urban Form. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11075998
• The Relationship Between Urban Morphology and the Citizens’ Social Media Footprints: A case study on Tokyo. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11076032
• Geospatiality: the effect of topics on the presence of geolocation in English text data. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13658816.2025.2460051
• The voices of the displaced: mobility and Twitter conversation of migrants of the 2022 Ukraine war. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030645732400030X
• The migrant perspective – Measuring migrants’ movements and interests using geolocated tweets. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/psp.2732
• Can social media data help to understand the socio-spatial heterogeneity of the interests and concerns of urban citizens? A Twitter data assessment for Mexico City.  https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-61440-8_10
• The Unseen—An Investigative Analysis of Thematic and Spatial Coverage of News on the Ongoing Refugee Crisis in West Africa. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10144130