Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction Discourse, Communication andTourism Dialogues -- Part 1 The Semiotics of Tourist Spaces, Landscapes and Destinations -- Chapter 1 The 'Consuming' of Place -- Chapter 2 Alternative India: TransgressiveSpaces -- Chapter 3 Representations of 'Ethnographic Knowledge': Early Comic Postcards of Wales -- Part 2 The Discursive Construction and Representation of the Tourist Experience -- Chapter 4 Exclusive, Ethno and Eco:Representations of Culture andNature in Tourism Discourses inNamibia -- Chapter 5 Venice Observed: The Traveller, The Tourist, The Post-Tourist and British Television -- Part 3 Identities on the Move -- Chapter 6 Discourses of Polish Agritourism: Global, Local, Pragmatic -- Chapter 7 Tourist or Traveller? Narrating Backpacker Identity -- Part 4 Performance and Authenticity -- Chapter 8 Tourism Performance as Metaphor: Enacting Backpacker Travel in the Fiji Islands -- Chapter 9 Wales Underground: Discursive Frames and Authenticities in Welsh Mining Heritage Tourism Events -- Chapter 10 'Just Perfect!' The Pragmatics of Evaluation in Holiday Postcards -- Index.

This book brings together an explicit linkage between empirical and theoretical perspectives on tourism and discourse. A broad social semiotic approach is adopted to analyze a range of spoken, written and visual texts providing a unique resource for researching and teaching tourism in the context of communication studies.

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