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Learning the Arts of Linguistic Survival : Languaging, Tourism, Life / Alison Phipps.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Tourism and Cultural Change ; 10Publisher: Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845410544
  • 9781845410551
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 910.01/4 22
LOC classification:
  • P51 .P455 2007
  • P51 .P455 2007eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Languages, Tourism and Life -- 2. Educating Tourists -- 3. Risks -- 4. Way Finding -- 5. Pronunciation -- 6. Conversations -- 7. Games -- 8. Rehearsing Speech -- 9. Breaking English -- 10. Tourist Language Learners -- 11. Surviving -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In this ground-breaking contribution to the study of tourism and languages, Alison Phipps examines what happens when tourists learn to speak other languages. From ordering a coffee to following directions she argues for a new perception of the relationship between tourism and languages from one based on the acquisition of basic, functional skills to one which sustains and even strengthens intercultural dialogue. The twelve chapters comprising this book tell stories of the experience of learning and speaking tourist languages. Drawing on a range of disciplines Alison Phipps takes the reader on a journey through risk, way finding, mistakes, laughter, conversations and the imagination. She provides rich descriptions of the world of language learning which has remained invisible to mainstream studies of language education, existing as it does on the margins of educational life. She shows how tourism is shaped by the learning experiences of everyday life. Languages, she argues passionately, fundamentally change the nature of perception, dwelling and relationships to other people and the world. This book will be essential reading for all those interested in tourism studies and in modern languages education. It is a timely study, coming at time of crisis in languages, as English exerts its power as a world language and as a dominant language of tourism. Learning the Arts of Linguistic Survival: Languaging, Tourism, Life will also be of interest to anthropologists, linguists, geographers, sociologists and those studying education.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Languages, Tourism and Life -- 2. Educating Tourists -- 3. Risks -- 4. Way Finding -- 5. Pronunciation -- 6. Conversations -- 7. Games -- 8. Rehearsing Speech -- 9. Breaking English -- 10. Tourist Language Learners -- 11. Surviving -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index

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In this ground-breaking contribution to the study of tourism and languages, Alison Phipps examines what happens when tourists learn to speak other languages. From ordering a coffee to following directions she argues for a new perception of the relationship between tourism and languages from one based on the acquisition of basic, functional skills to one which sustains and even strengthens intercultural dialogue. The twelve chapters comprising this book tell stories of the experience of learning and speaking tourist languages. Drawing on a range of disciplines Alison Phipps takes the reader on a journey through risk, way finding, mistakes, laughter, conversations and the imagination. She provides rich descriptions of the world of language learning which has remained invisible to mainstream studies of language education, existing as it does on the margins of educational life. She shows how tourism is shaped by the learning experiences of everyday life. Languages, she argues passionately, fundamentally change the nature of perception, dwelling and relationships to other people and the world. This book will be essential reading for all those interested in tourism studies and in modern languages education. It is a timely study, coming at time of crisis in languages, as English exerts its power as a world language and as a dominant language of tourism. Learning the Arts of Linguistic Survival: Languaging, Tourism, Life will also be of interest to anthropologists, linguists, geographers, sociologists and those studying education.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)