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For the first time ever, this book brings together an explicit linkage between empirical and theoretical perspectives on tourism and discourse. A broad social semiotic approach is adopted to analyze a range of spoken, written and visual texts providing a unique resource for researching and teaching tourism in the context of communication studies. Some of the key concepts explored in its chapters include space, representation, the tourist experience, identity, performance and authenticity, and the contributors are key sociologists of tourism as well as discourse analysts and sociolinguists
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction. Discourse, Communication and Tourism Dialogues / Pritchard, Annette / Jaworski, Adam -- Part 1: The Semiotics of Tourist Spaces, Landscapes and Destinations -- Chapter 1. The ‘Consuming’ of Place / Urry, John -- Chapter 2. Alternative India: Transgressive Spaces / Davidson, Kelly -- Chapter 3. Representations of ‘Ethnographic Knowledge’: Early Comic Postcards of Wales / Pritchard, Annette / Morgan, Nigel -- Part 2: The Discursive Construction and Representation of the Tourist Experience -- Chapter 4. Exclusive, Ethno and Eco: Representations of Culture and Nature in Tourism Discourses in Namibia / Papen, Uta -- Chapter 5. Venice Observed: The Traveller, The Tourist, The Post-Tourist and British Television / Dunn, David -- Part 3: Identities on the Move -- Chapter 6. Discourses of Polish Agritourism: Global, Local, Pragmatic / Jaworski, Adam / Lawson, Sarah -- Chapter 7. Tourist or Traveller? Narrating Backpacker Identity / O’Reilly, Camille C. -- Part 4: Performance and Authenticity -- Chapter 8. Tourism Performance as Metaphor: Enacting Backpacker Travel in the Fiji Islands / Doorne, Stephen / Ateljevic, Irena -- Chapter 9. Wales Underground: Discursive Frames and Authenticities in Welsh Mining Heritage Tourism Events / Coupland, Nikolas / Garrett, Peter / Bishop, Hywel -- Chapter 10. ‘Just Perfect!’ The Pragmatics of Evaluation in Holiday Postcards / Kennedy, Chris -- Index