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Product Identifiers
PublisherChannel View Publications, The Limited
ISBN-101845410203
ISBN-139781845410209
eBay Product ID (ePID)45394463
Product Key Features
Number of Pages264 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameDiscourse, Communication and Tourism
SubjectCommunication Studies, Linguistics / Semantics, Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year2005
TypeTextbook
AuthorAnnette Pritchard
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Social Science, Business & Economics
SeriesTourism and Cultural Change Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight18.7 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2005-004536
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsThe 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.
Series Volume Number5
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal910.014
Table Of ContentAcknowledgements Contributors Annette Pritchard and Adam Jaworski: Introduction: Discourse, Communication and Tourism Dialogues Part 1: The Semiotics of Tourist Spaces, Landscapes and Destinations 1 John Urry: The 'Consuming' of Place 2 Kelly Davidson: Alternative India: Transgressive Spaces 3 Annette Pritchard and Nigel Morgan: Representations of 'Ethnographic Knowledge': Early Comic Postcards of Wales Part 2: The Discursive Construction and Representation of the Tourist Experience 4 Uta Papen: Exclusive, Ethno and Eco: Representations of Culture and Nature in Tourism Discourses in Namibia 5 David Dunn: Venice Observed: The Traveller, The Tourist, The Post-Tourist and British Television Part 3: Identities on the Move 6 Adam Jaworski and Sarah Lawson: Discourses of Polish Agritourism: Global, Local, Pragmatic 7 Camille C. O'Reilly: Tourist or Traveller? Narrating Backpacker Identity Part 4: Performance and Authenticity 8 Stephen Doorne and Irena Ateljevic: Tourism Performance as Metaphor: Enacting Backpacker Travel in the Fiji Islands 9 Nikolas Coupland, Peter Garrett and Hywel Bishop: Wales Underground: Discursive Frames and Authenticities in Welsh Mining Heritage Tourism Events 10 Chris Kennedy: 'Just Perfect!' The Pragmatics of Evaluation in Holiday Postcards Index
SynopsisFor 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberG155.A1D572 2005
