Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
11th International EUROPEAN CONFERENCE on Interdisciplinary Scientific Research, Lisbon, Portekiz, 20 Ocak 2025, ss.258-271, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
The fact that the concept of in-between space carries multiple meanings and various interpretations in various fields of knowledge or spatial research disciplines leads to concept confusion over time. Polysemy renders the concept useless and ambiguous. Through this problem, it is aimed to create a perspective that analyzes the concept confusion by examining similar definitions and interpretations of the concept of in-between space from an epistemological point of view. While the lack of a study in this context reveals the gap in the field, it is important to create a conceptual infrastructure where the concept can be perceived in a simple framework. The method of the study is to examine the use of the concept of in-between space in 30 articles in a sample limited according to certain criteria in the Scopus database, to examine the semantic dimensions of the concept in terms of the definition of the concept by context analysis, to categorize them into meaning groups according to the semantic dimensions in the definitions, and finally to frame the semantic structure of the concept by interpreting them together. The research questions in this process are “what the concept of intermediate space is, what it expresses, and with which concepts it is expressed”, “what are the sources or reasons for the ambiguities of the concept” and “for what purposes the concept is used”. These questions enable us to analyze the boundaries of meaning of the concept through its contextual and therefore pragmatic structure. The use of the concept of in-between space to express different meanings and phenomena in different fields of knowledge and at different scales has led to an over-extension of the concept's scope. At this point, revealing certain semantic dimensions (physical, functional, formal, etc.) can help to draw the boundaries of the concept and create a comprehensible epistemological framework.