In this engaging and lively book, Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski
present a compelling analysis of - and new insights into - the role of spoken, written and
visual discourse in producing tourism as a global cultural industry. Framed by the
symbolic and economic orders of global mobility, Tourism Discourse presents an
empirically-based discussion of language ideologies and host-tourist relations in
contemporary tourism.
Each chapter investigates a different tourism genre: inflight magazines, trade signs and
business cards, tourists' postcard messages, television holiday shows, newspaper
travelogues, and guidebook glossaries. For Thurlow and Jaworski, these 'discourses on the
move' illuminate the everyday experience and 'banal enactment' of globalization.
CRISPIN THURLOW is Associate Professor of Communication and
Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
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 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).
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mediating Global Mobilities: Language, Tourism, Globalization
PART I: DISCOURSES ON THE MOVE: THE GENRES AND SYMBOLIC CAPITAL OF TOURISM
DISCOURSE
Elite Mobility and Global Lifestyles: Inflight Magazines
Borrowed Genres and the Language Market: Trade Signs and Business Cards
Transient Identities, New Mobilities: Holiday Postcards with Virpi Ylänne
PART II: MOBILIZING LANGUAGE IDEOLOGIES: THE METALINGUISTIC PRODUCTION OF
TOURISM DISCOURSE
Linguascaping the Exotic: Newspaper Travelogues
Language Crossing and Identity Play: TV Holiday Programmes with Virpi Ylänne
The Commodification of Local Linguacultures: Guidebook Glossaries
Conclusion: Tourism Discourse and Banal Globalization
Notes
References
Appendix
Index
296 pages, Hardcover