Linguistic landscapes on postcards: Tourist mediation and the sociolinguistic communities of contact

Sociolinguistic Studies

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 569-594

  Jaworski, Adam ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communities of contact; Globalisation; Postcards; Text image relation; Tourism; Writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856164836     PISSN: 17508649     EISSN: 17508657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/sols.v4i3.569     Document Type: Article

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