Language and Intercultural Communication in Tourism (Routledge Studies in Language and Intercultural Communication)

This assortment critically examines tourism as a web site of intercultural communication, drawing on the analytical instruments afforded by the self-discipline towards higher understanding modern tourism discourses and the broader societal buildings of energy and ideologies during which they’re located.

The quantity interrogates tradition and interculturality in tourism in detailed analyses of discursive particulars in tourism interactions and focuses on the notion of tradition as a course of or phenomenon engaged in or enacted on by people. Drawing on discourse analytic and ethnographic approaches, the ebook brings collectively views from the lived experiences of residents, hosts and ethnographers to discover the extent to which linguistic and cultural variations are constructed, identities negotiated, and energy relations maintained and perpetuated in tourism encounters. The quantity attracts on insights from these working throughout a variety of geographic contexts and explores the interaction of those points in English in addition to different languages and language varieties utilized in tourism interactions.

With its deal with important approaches to understanding language and tradition, this ebook will enchantment to college students and students in intercultural communication, utilized linguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse evaluation, and tourism research.