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Tourism Discourse: Language and Global Mobility
Adam Jaworski
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Description for Tourism Discourse: Language and Global Mobility
Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; CFG; JFCA; JFD; JHBS; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
Tourism Discourse offers new insights into the role of spoken, written and visual discourse in representing and producing tourism as a global cultural industry. With a view to the interplay between the symbolic and economic orders of global mobility, the book is grounded in empirically-based studies of key tourism genres.
Tourism Discourse offers new insights into the role of spoken, written and visual discourse in representing and producing tourism as a global cultural industry. With a view to the interplay between the symbolic and economic orders of global mobility, the book is grounded in empirically-based studies of key tourism genres.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave USA
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403987969
SKU
V9781403987969
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Adam Jaworski
CRISPIN THURLOW is Associate Professor of Communication and Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. His books include Talking Adolescence: Perspectives on Communication in the Teenage Years (2005) and, with Adam Jaworski, Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space (2009) and Language Tourism, Globalization: The Sociolinguistics of Fleeting Relationships (2010). He is Associate Editor for the National Communication ... Read more
Reviews for Tourism Discourse: Language and Global Mobility
'[The authors] have been extremely successful in giving us the tools, the practices and methods for compiling working corpora to develop this new field of enquiry in the sociolinguistics of tourism. Developing a new critical methodology to examine the discourses that often remained unquestioned in a strictly business studies approach to tourism and hospitality is sufficient justification and recommendation for ... Read more