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Tourism discourse : language and global mobility / Crispin Thurlow, Adam Jaworski.

Author/creator Thurlow, Crispin
Other author/creatorJaworski, Adam, 1957-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Descriptionix, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content Table of contents
Subject(s)
Tourism--Social aspects.
Language and culture.
Culture and globalization.
Discourse analysis.
Contents Introduction: mediating global mobility: language, tourism, globalization -- Elite mobility and global lifestyles: inflight magazines -- Borrowed genres and the language market: trade signs and business cards -- Transient identities, new mobilities: holiday postcards -- Linguascaping the exotic: newspaper travelogues -- Language crossing and identity play: TV holiday shows -- The commodification of local linguacultures: guidebook glossaries -- Conclusion: tourism discourse and banal globalization.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Thurlow, Crispin. Tourism discourse. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
LCCN 2009046586
ISBN9781403987969 (alk. paper)
ISBN1403987963 (alk. paper)

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