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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450357303321

Titolo

Discourse, communication, and tourism [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Adam Jaworski and Annette Pritchard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Clevedon [England] ; ; Buffalo, : Channel View Publications, c2005

ISBN

1-84541-294-X

1-280-55092-9

9786610550920

1-84541-021-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

Tourism and cultural change ; ; 5

Altri autori (Persone)

JaworskiAdam <1957->

PritchardAnnette

Disciplina

910/.01/4

Soggetti

Discourse analysis

Intercultural communication

Tourism - Social aspects

Tourism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction. Discourse, Communication and Tourism Dialogues -- Chapter 1. The ‘Consuming’ of Place -- Chapter 2. Alternative India: Transgressive Spaces -- Chapter 3. Representations of ‘Ethnographic Knowledge’: Early Comic Postcards of Wales -- Chapter 4. Exclusive, Ethno and Eco: Representations of Culture and Nature in Tourism Discourses in Namibia -- Chapter 5. Venice Observed: The Traveler, The Tourist, The Post-Tourist and British Television -- Chapter 6. Discourses of Polish Agritourism: Global, Local, Pragmatic -- Chapter 7. Tourist or Traveler? Narrating Backpacker Identity -- Chapter 8. Tourism Performance as Metaphor: Enacting Backpacker Travel in the Fiji Islands -- Chapter 9. Wales Underground: Discursive Frames and Authenticities in Welsh Mining Heritage Tourism Events -- Chapter 10. ‘Just Perfect!’ The Pragmatics of Evaluation in Holiday Postcards -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

For the first time ever, this book brings together an explicit linkage between empirical and theoretical perspectives on tourism and discourse. A broad social semiotic approach is adopted to analyze a range of spoken, written and visual texts providing a unique resource for researching and teaching tourism in the context of communication studies. Some of the key concepts explored in its chapters include space, representation, the tourist experience, identity, performance and authenticity, and the contributors are key sociologists of tourism as well as discourse analysts and sociolinguists.