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

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Multilingual Matters, 1 janv. 2006 - 205 pages
Telling the stories of the experience of learning and speaking tourist languages, this book takes the reader on a journey through risk, way finding, mistakes, laughter, conversations and the imagination. It provides descriptions of the world of language learning. It examines what happens when tourists learn to speak other languages.

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Introduction
1
Chapter 1 Languages Tourism and Life
15
Chapter 2 Educating Tourists
29
Chapter 3 Risks
48
Chapter 4 Way Finding
65
Chapter 5 Pronunciation
81
Chapter 6 Conversations
97
Chapter 7 Games
113
Chapter 8 Rehearsing Speech
128
Chapter 9 Breaking English
142
Chapter 10 Tourist Language Learners
156
Chapter 11 Surviving
171
Afterword
186
Bibliography
189
Index
198
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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.

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