Images of nature by tourism and environmentalist discourses in visitors books: A critical discourse analysis of ecotourism

Discourse and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 105-129

  Stamou, Anastasia G ^a   Paraskevopoulos, Stephanos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

(Eco)Critical Discourse Analysis; Ecotourism; Environmentalist discourse; Images of nature; Lexis; Macro speech acts; The tourism environmentalism continuum; Tourism discourse; Visitors books

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642458323     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926504038948     Document Type: Article

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