Learning the Arts of Linguistic Survival: Languaging, Tourism, LifeChannel View Publications, 2006 - 205 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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... nature . It draws out the need in others - as Brecht wishes such techniques to work on his audi- ences - of action , help , attention , change . My audiences - those Portuguese folk I encounter as a real tourist - respond to me not with ...
... nature of the performance a reflex- ive element that punctuates the performance and creates the potential for transformation . Languagers as intercultural speakers and listeners are both possessed by and caught up in the dramatic social ...
... nature , a mobility , a liquidity that some celebrate and others condemn : Life in liquid modern society is a ... nature of dwelling that is tourism , is particularly defining any longer . Bauman himself , I believe , has moved to ...
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