Language and Tourism in Postcolonial Settings / / Angelika Mietzner, Anne Storch.

• HerausgeberIn: Mietzner, Angelika,; Storch, Anne,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol, UK;, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : : Channel View Publications, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Tourism and Cultural Change
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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. The volume offers a multifaceted view on how language commodifies, and is commodified in, tourism settings and considers language practices and discourse as a way of constructing identities, boundaries and places. It also reflects on academic practice and economic dynamics in a field that is characterised by social inequalities and injustice, and tourism as the world's largest industry enacting dynamic communicative, social and cultural transformations. The book will appeal to both undergraduate and postgraduate students of tourism studies, linguistics, literature, cultural history and anthropology, as well as researchers and professionals in these fields.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface: cape coast caper -- 1. Linguistic Entanglements, Emblematic Codes and Representation in Tourism: Introduction -- 2. Transformations of the 'Tourist Gaze': Landscaping and the Linguist behind the Lens -- 3. Backpacking Performances: An Empirical Contribution -- 4. 'We Have Our Own Africans': Public Displays of Zār in Iran -- 5. Cameras as Barriers of Understanding: Reflections on a Philanthropic Journey to Kenya -- 6. Heritage Tourism and the Freak Show: A Study on Names, Horror, Race and Gender -- 7. Postcolonial Performativity in the Philippine Heritage Tourism Industry -- 8. The Hakuna Matata Swahili: Linguistic Souvenirs from the Kenyan Coast -- Afterword: Between Silence and Noise: Towards an Entangled Sociolinguistics of Tourism -- Bookend: cape ghost -- Index