'Please don't climb trees and pick flowers for the sake of life' - making sense of bilingual tourism signs in China

Language and Intercultural Communication

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 389-407

  Radtke, Oliver ^a   Yuan, Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chinglish; intercultural communication; language contact; sociology; tourism studies; translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855933622     PISSN: 14708477     EISSN: 1747759X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14708477.2011.616592     Document Type: Review

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