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Title Language and tourism in postcolonial settings / edited by Angelika Mietzner and Anne Storch.

Publication Info. Bristol, UK ; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Tourism and cultural change ; 54
Tourism and cultural change ; 54.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Transformations of the "tourist gaze" : landscaping and the linguist behind the lens / Christiane M. Bongartz -- Backpacking performances : an empirical contribution / Luis Cronopio -- "We have our own Africans" : public displays of zar in Iran / Sara Zavaree -- Cameras as barriers of understanding : reflections on a philanthropic journey to Kenya / Angelika Mietzner -- Heritage tourism and the freak show : a study on names, horror, race and gender / Anne Storch -- Postcolonial performativity in the Philippine heritage tourism industry / Raymund Vitorio -- The hakuna matata Swahili : linguistic souvenirs from the Kenyan coast / Nico Nassenstein -- Between silence and noise : towards an entangled sociolinguistics of tourism / Adam Jaworski.
Summary This book focuses on perspectives from and on the global south, providing fresh data and analyses on languages in African, Caribbean, Middle-Eastern and Asian tourism contexts. It provides a critical perspective on tourism in postcolonial and neocolonial settings, explored through in-depth case studies.
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Subject Tourism -- Social aspects -- Developing countries.
Tourism -- Social aspects.
Developing countries.
Language and culture -- Developing countries.
Language and culture.
Sociolinguistics -- Developing countries.
Sociolinguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Colonialism & imperialism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Added Author Mietzner, Angelika, editor.
Storch, Anne, ditor.
Other Form: Print version: Language and tourism in postcolonial settings. Bristol, UK ; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications, 2019 9781845416782 (DLC) 2018055386
ISBN 1845416791
9781845416805 (epub)
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9781845416812 (Kindle)
1845416813
9781845416799 (electronic book)
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