Discourse, Communication and Tourism

Published by Channel View Publications 2005

Discourse, Communication and Tourism

Edited by: Adam Jaworski and Annette Pritchard

Volume 5 in the series Tourism and Cultural Change

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781845410216

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Jaworski Adam :

Adam Jaworski is Chair Professor of Sociolinguistics at the School of English, University of Hong Kong. He was formerly at Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Birkbeck University of London, and Cardiff University. His research interests include language and globalization, display of languages in space, media discourse, nonverbal communication, and text-based art. His most recent book is The Elite Discourse (Routledge, 2018, with Crispin Thurlow). He is member of the editorial board of the following journals: Discourse, Context & Media, Discourse & Society, Journal of Language and Politics, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language in Society, Linguistic Landscape, The Mouth, Multilingua, and Visual Communication, among others. With Brook Bolander, he co-edits the Oxford University Press book series, Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics.

Pritchard Annette :

Annette Pritchard is Reader at the Welsh Centre for Tourism Research, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. She has published widely in a range of tourism areas.

Adam Jaworski is Professor at the Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University He has published widely in various areas of language and communication including touristâhost interaction and representations of tourism.

Annette Pritchard is Reader at the Welsh Centre for Tourism Research, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. She has published widely in a range of tourism areas.

Reviews

Piers Smith, Gulf University of Science and Technology:

The book offers an important contribution to the burgeoning field of tourism studies and should, as much for its uniqueness as for the success of its individual essays, prove a point of departure for further work in the field.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction. Discourse, Communication and Tourism Dialogues Annette Pritchard and Adam Jaworski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1: The Semiotics of Tourist Spaces, Landscapes and Destinations
Chapter 1. The ‘Consuming’ of Place John Urry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter 2. Alternative India: Transgressive Spaces Kelly Davidson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
Chapter 3. Representations of ‘Ethnographic Knowledge’: Early Comic Postcards of Wales Annette Pritchard and Nigel Morgan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
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 Uta Papen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Chapter 5. Venice Observed: The Traveller, The Tourist, The Post-Tourist and British Television David Dunn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
Part 3: Identities on the Move
Chapter 6. Discourses of Polish Agritourism: Global, Local, Pragmatic Adam Jaworski and Sarah Lawson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Chapter 7. Tourist or Traveller? Narrating Backpacker Identity Camille C. O’Reilly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
Part 4: Performance and Authenticity
Chapter 8. Tourism Performance as Metaphor: Enacting Backpacker Travel in the Fiji Islands Stephen Doorne and Irena Ateljevic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Chapter 9. Wales Underground: Discursive Frames and Authenticities in Welsh Mining Heritage Tourism Events Nikolas Coupland, Peter Garrett and Hywel Bishop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Chapter 10. ‘Just Perfect!’ The Pragmatics of Evaluation in Holiday Postcards Chris Kennedy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Keywords: semiotics; communication studies; discourse analysis; representation; the tourist experience; identity; authenticity

eBook

Published: September 19, 2005
ISBN: 9781845410216