| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 184 pages). |
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| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
Tourism and cultural change ; 36
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Tourism and cultural change ; 36.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This volume explores the relationship between tourism and travel texts and contemporary society, and how each is shaped by the other. A multimodal analysis is used to consider a variety of texts including novels, brochures, blogs, websites, radio commercials, videos, postcards and authentic tourist pictures and their meaning-making dynamics within the tourism discourse. The book looks at the ways in which these different texts have influenced how tourists and travellers have been viewed over time and how we envision ourselves as tourists or travellers. It puts forward multimodal analysis as the best framework for exploring the semiotic potential of these texts. Including examples from the UK, Malta, Canada, New Zealand, India, Jamaica and South Africa, this volume will be useful for researchers and students in tourism studies, communication and media studies and applied linguistics. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tourism -- Social aspects.
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Tourism -- Social aspects. |
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Travel writing.
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Travel writing. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Francesconi, Sabrina. Reading Tourism Texts. Channel View Publications 2014 1306463386 |
| ISBN |
9781845414283 (electronic book) |
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1845414284 (electronic book) |
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1306463386 (electronic book) |
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9781306463386 (electronic book) |
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