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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... ( sounds like ... ) is added to each letter in turn . The sounds of the language produce a reaction , acting as triggers for surprise , laughter and comment , notably the pronunciation of H and J. a - ah b - bay c - say d - day e - eayle ...
... sounds in their mouths , but they also concentrate on acquiring the discipline , the rigidity of structure , through repetition , that will help them make the strangeness their own , make it fit in their mouths , make it find a way of ...
... sounds like a dance , ' whispers my partner to me . ' La fragola - with the emphasis on fra . ' We begin to repeat ... sounds , expertly and inexpertly pronounced . It is not just a classroom for learning a tourist lan- guage , it is ...
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