When Travel Meets Tourism: Tracing Discourse in Tony Wheeler's Blog

Critical Studies in Media Communication

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 275-291

  Azariah, Deepti Ruth ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Heteroglossia; Lonely Planet; Picaresque; Tourist discourse; Travel; Weblogs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867271422     PISSN: 15295036     EISSN: 14795809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2011.574640     Document Type: Article

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