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Discourse, Communication and Tourism / ed. by Adam Jaworski, Annette Pritchard.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Tourism and Cultural Change ; 5Publisher: Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845410209
  • 9781845410216
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.4791 910/.01/4
LOC classification:
  • G155.A1 D572 2005
  • G155.A1 D572 2005eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction. Discourse, Communication and Tourism Dialogues -- Part 1: The Semiotics of Tourist Spaces, Landscapes and Destinations -- Chapter 1. The 'Consuming' of Place -- Chapter 2. Alternative India: Transgressive Spaces -- Chapter 3. Representations of 'Ethnographic Knowledge': Early Comic Postcards of Wales -- Part 2: The Discursive Construction and Representation of the Tourist Experience -- Chapter 4. Exclusive, Ethno and Eco: Representations of Culture and Nature in Tourism Discourses in Namibia -- Chapter 5. Venice Observed: The Traveller, The Tourist, The Post-Tourist and British Television -- Part 3: Identities on the Move -- Chapter 6. Discourses of Polish Agritourism: Global, Local, Pragmatic -- Chapter 7. Tourist or Traveller? Narrating Backpacker Identity -- Part 4: Performance and Authenticity -- 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
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction. Discourse, Communication and Tourism Dialogues -- Part 1: The Semiotics of Tourist Spaces, Landscapes and Destinations -- Chapter 1. The 'Consuming' of Place -- Chapter 2. Alternative India: Transgressive Spaces -- Chapter 3. Representations of 'Ethnographic Knowledge': Early Comic Postcards of Wales -- Part 2: The Discursive Construction and Representation of the Tourist Experience -- Chapter 4. Exclusive, Ethno and Eco: Representations of Culture and Nature in Tourism Discourses in Namibia -- Chapter 5. Venice Observed: The Traveller, The Tourist, The Post-Tourist and British Television -- Part 3: Identities on the Move -- Chapter 6. Discourses of Polish Agritourism: Global, Local, Pragmatic -- Chapter 7. Tourist or Traveller? Narrating Backpacker Identity -- Part 4: Performance and Authenticity -- 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

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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.

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)