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. |
À l'intérieur du livre
Résultats 1-3 sur 8
... risk . Discourses of risk pervade contemporary western life and risk , as a social phenomenon , has been the subject ... society . " " The public " definitely does not see risks in the same way as the experts ' ( Douglas , 1994 : 11 ) . Beck ...
... risks that are ontological , epistemologi- cal , material and affective . It ... risk is addressed , narrated and generated . Risk is one of the reasons for ... society suf- ficient , I would argue , to encompass the many other domains ...
... risk 51 , 109 oral comprehension 98 oral tradition , travel narrative 69 ... society 49 power 17 , 40 , 122 , 150-1 practiced place 73 pre - existing ... risk society 49-50 reflexivity , tourist language performances 141 rehearsal see ...
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Learning the Arts of Linguistic Survival: Languaging, Tourism, Life Alison Phipps Aperçu limité - 2006 |