Thurlow, Crispin.

Tourism discourse : language and global mobility / Crispin Thurlow, Adam Jaworski. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - ix, 282 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: mediating global mobility: language, tourism, globalization -- Elite mobility and global lifestyles: inflight magazines -- Borrowed genres and the language market: trade signs and business cards -- Transient identities, new mobilities: holiday postcards -- Linguascaping the exotic: newspaper travelogues -- Language crossing and identity play: TV holiday shows -- The commodification of local linguacultures: guidebook glossaries -- Conclusion: tourism discourse and banal globalization.

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Tourism--Social aspects.
Language and culture.
Culture and globalization.
Discourse analysis.

306.4 THU