Summary
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Tourist Studies developed as a sub-branch of older disciplines in the social sciences, such as anthropology, sociology and economics, and newer applied fields of study in hospitality management, civil rights and transport studies. This Handbook is a sign of the maturity of the field. It provides an essential resource for teachers and students to determine the roots, key issues, and agenda of Tourism Studies.
Tourism and Languaging
Tourism and Languaging
Tourism and Languages
Tourism offers a profound and concentrated encounter with other languages. It concentrates global linguistic diversity. Some languages are more “global” than others, and more likely to be offered up in phrase books or tourist language courses than others. The commonsense of the global paradigm is that I will “get further” with English than I will with Chicheŵa. As a tourist I now readily assume that I will be able to “get by” in English, that the world speaks English. A journey from Scotland to Lisbon finds me leafing through my language notebooks from a survival language course I took the year before, talking to my neighbor on the plane, reading over my phrase book, checking in my head and ...
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