Tourism discourse:language and global mobility
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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Publisher Address: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York |
Publication Dates: | c2010. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | ix, 282 p.: ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
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9781403987969 (alk. paper) 1403987963 (alk. paper) |
Index Number: | F590 |
CLC: | F590 |
Call Number: | F590/T538 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. |