Learning the Arts of Linguistic Survival: Languaging, Tourism, LifeMultilingual 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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... relations with another place and people? Beyond this, other questions are raised: Do the multilingual, intercul- tural environments of tourism encompass wider, and more complex modes of being? Urry asks the question 'what happens when ...
... relation- ships with all around us and to hand. Other languages, in other people and in other places, offer a change from the routines of our everyday language and our everyday lives. They offer new perspectives and new places to dwell ...
... relation with people and place. Under such a view of the possibilities afforded in tourism for cultural change, I regard attempts to manage away intercultural difference and linguistic diversity as removing certain crucial dimensions ...
... relation, to speak of the cultures of English, of French, of Portuguese to avoid the metonymical, partial and often essentialist aspects that pervade our intercultural imaginations as tourists. Cultures are not static or simple nor are ...
... relations of a class of learners on holiday . MacIntyre is keen for us to hold fast to a core of values or virtues that he sees as a tradition ' at vari- ance with central features of the modern economic order and more espe- cially its ...
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Learning the Arts of Linguistic Survival: Languaging, Tourism, Life Alison M. Phipps Affichage d'extraits - 2006 |