Synopses & Reviews
Tourism Discourse offers new insights into the role of spoken, written and visual discourse in representating 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.
About the Author
CRISPIN THURLOW is an associate professor of Communication and Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, Seattle. 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 Association's
Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.
ADAM JAWORSKI is a professor at the Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University, UK. His books include Discourse, Communication and Tourism (2005, with Annette Pritchard), The Discourse Reader (2006) and The New Sociolinguistics Reader (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) (both with Nik Coupland).
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments * Introduction: Mediating Global Mobilities: Language, Tourism, Globalization * PART I: DISCOURSES ON THE MOVE: THE GENRES AND SYMBOLIC CAPITAL OF TOURISM DISCOURSE * Elite Mobility and Global Lifestyles: Inflight Magazines * Borrowed Genres and the Language Market: Trade Signs and Business Cards * Transient Identities, New Mobilities: Holiday Postcards * PART II: MOBILIZING LANGUAGE IDEOLOGIES: THE METALINGUISTIC PRODUCTION OF TOURISM DISCOURSE * Linguascaping the Exotic: Newspaper Travelogues * Language Crossing and Identity Play: TV Holiday Programmes * The Commodification of Local Linguacultures: Guidebook Glossaries * Conclusion: Tourism Discourse and Banal Globalization * Notes * References * Appendix * Index