Tourism discourse:language and global mobility

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Thurlow Crispin
Group Author: Jaworski Adam 1957-
Published: Palgrave Macmillan,
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.
ISBN: 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.