Learning the Arts of Linguistic Survival: Languaging, Tourism, Life

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Multilingual Matters, 10 nov. 2006 - 240 pages

In this ground-breaking contribution to the study of tourism and languages, Alison Phipps examines what happens when tourists learn to speak other languages. From ordering a coffee to following directions she argues for a new perception of the relationship between tourism and languages from one based on the acquisition of basic, functional skills to one which sustains and even strengthens intercultural dialogue. The twelve chapters comprising this book tell stories of the experience of learning and speaking tourist languages. Drawing on a range of disciplines Alison Phipps takes the reader on a journey through risk, way finding, mistakes, laughter, conversations and the imagination. She provides rich descriptions of the world of language learning which has remained invisible to mainstream studies of language education, existing as it does on the margins of educational life. She shows how tourism is shaped by the learning experiences of everyday life. Languages, she argues passionately, fundamentally change the nature of perception, dwelling and relationships to other people and the world. This book will be essential reading for all those interested in tourism studies and in modern languages education. It is a timely study, coming at time of crisis in languages, as English exerts its power as a world language and as a dominant language of tourism. Learning the Arts of Linguistic Survival: Languaging, Tourism, Life will also be of interest to anthropologists, linguists, geographers, sociologists and those studying education.

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... action is equivalent to what, in relation to musical performance, I have called 'feeling': to play is to feel; to act is to attend, The agent's attention, in other words, is fully absorbed in the action. (Ingold, 2000: 414) As such I ...
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... action. We make a distinc- tion between the effort of using languages that one is learning in the classroom contexts with the effort of being a person in that language in the social and material world of everyday interactions ...
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... action , I too am moved to gently suggest some grander narratives that emerge from this work . These pertain to the values , virtues and stories that my tourist language learners live by – not necessarily grand narra- tives , but ones ...
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... action of languaging, from language learn- ing as a way of preparing to dwell in other places, can the sense of ... actions do not transform the world, they are part and parcel of the world's transforming itself' (Ingold, 2000: 200) ...
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... action and as a valid mode of critical, reflective, educational engagement with the world. The literature on modern languages, born as it is out of a time of acute crisis for languages other than English does not reflect the powerful ...

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Afterword
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Index
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À propos de l'auteur (2006)

Alison Phipps is Director of Graduate Development for Arts, Humanities and Education at the University of Glasgow, where she teaches modern languages, comparative literature, anthropology and intercultural studies. Her books include Acting Identities (2000), Contemporary German Cultural Studies (ed. 2002), Modern Languages: Learning and Teaching in an Intercultural Field (2004) with Mike Gonzalez, Critical Pedagogy: Political Approaches to Languages and Intercultural Communication (ed. 2004) with Manuela Guilherme and Tourism and Intercultural Exchange (2005) with Gavin Jack.

Informations bibliographiques

TitreLearning the Arts of Linguistic Survival: Languaging, Tourism, Life
Volume 10 de Tourism and Cultural Change
AuteurAlison Phipps
ÉditeurMultilingual Matters, 2006
ISBN1845413334, 9781845413330
Longueur240 pages
  
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