Language and the Globalizing Habitus of Tourism: Toward A Sociolinguistics of Fleeting Relationships

The Handbook of Language and Globalization

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 255-286

  Jaworski, Adam ^a   Thurlow, Crispin ^a  

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Author keywords

Age of "liquid modernity" Zygmunt Bauman arguing, tourism as a vast movement of specific people and metaphor for contemporary (Western) life; Being a tourist doing tourism and performance of contact; Humor, a common element of tourist texts and interactions; Language and globalizing habitus of tourism toward a sociolinguistics of fleeting relationships; Language as a commodity; National economies and welfare provision deregulation; Sociolinguistics on the move; Tourism under as global capitalism; Turning to tourism language on the move

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863547810     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324068.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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