Tourism and self-Orientalism in Oman: A critical discourse analysis

Critical Discourse Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 269-284

  Feighery, William G ^a  

^a The Educational Travel Foundation   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

discourse; film; Oman; representation; self Orientalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863539878     PISSN: 17405904     EISSN: 17405912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2012.688210     Document Type: Article

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