Tourism Discourse: Language and Global Mobility [Hardcover]

Crispin Thurlow (Author), Adam Jaworski (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1403987963 | ISBN-13: 978-1403987969 | Publication Date: March 30, 2010

Tourism Discourse offers new insights into the role of spoken, written and visual discourse in representating and producing tourism as a global cultural industry. With a view to the interplay between the symbolic and economic orders of global mobility, the book is grounded in empirically-based studies of key tourism genres.

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About the Author

CRISPIN THURLOW is an associate professor of Communication and Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, Seattle. His books include Talking Adolescence: Perspectives on Communication in the Teenage Years (2005) and, with Adam Jaworski, Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space (2009) and Language Tourism, Globalization: The Sociolinguistics of Fleeting Relationships (2010). He is Associate Editor for the National Communication Association's Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.
 
ADAM JAWORSKI is a professor at the Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University, UK. His books include Discourse, Communication and Tourism (2005, with Annette Pritchard), The Discourse Reader (2006) and The New Sociolinguistics Reader (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) (both with Nik Coupland).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (March 30, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1403987963
• ISBN-13: 978-1403987969
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,462,373 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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