Strategies of Adaptation in Tourist Communication: Linguistic Insights

VI, 324 pp.
ISBN: 978-90-04-35956-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Utrecht Studies in Language an

The papers in this volume study the relationship between language use and the concept of the “tourist gaze” through a range of communicative practices from different cultures and languages. From a pragmatic perspective, the authors investigate how language constantly adapts to contextual constraints which affect tourism discourse as a strategic meaning-making process that turns insignificant places into desirable tourist destinations. The case studies draw on both, in situ interactions with visitors, such as guided tours and counter information, old and new mediatized genres, i.e. guide books, travelogues, print advertising as well as TV-commercials, service web-sites and apps. Despite the diversity of data, one of the common findings in the volume is that staging the sensory ‘lived’ tourist experience is the lynchpin of all communicative practices. Hence, the use of tourism language reveals itself as the mirror of how ‘people on the move’ continuously enact as ‘tourists’ and ‘places’ are constructed as must-see ‘sights’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Held, Gudrun

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Über Autor(innen)

GUDRUN HELD, Ph.D. (1952), University of Salzburg, is Professor of Italian and French linguistics at the Department of Romance Languages. Her research draws on linguistic pragmatics (namely politeness- and face-theory), and multimodal media textuality. She has published a monograph (Narr, 1995), several edited volumes and many articles.

Contributors are: Donella Antelmi, Tania Baumann, Sascha Demarmels, Maria Rosaria Compagnone, Marcella Costa, Giuliana Fiorentino, Olga Denti, Uta Helfrich, Ursina Kellerhals, Manfred Kienpointner, Sonja Kolberg, Vesna Mikolic, Miriam Ravetto, Christina Muriel Samson, Francesca Santulli, Martina Temmerman, Sabine Wahl, Adam Wilson.