Reading tourism texts : a multimodal analysis
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Reading tourism texts : a multimodal analysis
(Tourism and cultural change)
, c2014
- : pbk
- : hbk
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Bibliography: p. 166-172
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume explores the relationship between tourism and travel texts and contemporary society, and how each is shaped by the other. A multimodal analysis is used to consider a variety of texts including novels, brochures, blogs, websites, radio commercials, videos, postcards and authentic tourist pictures and their meaning-making dynamics within the tourism discourse. The book looks at the ways in which these different texts have influenced how tourists and travellers have been viewed over time and how we envision ourselves as tourists or travellers. It puts forward multimodal analysis as the best framework for exploring the semiotic potential of these texts. Including examples from the UK, Malta, Canada, New Zealand, India, Jamaica and South Africa, this volume will be useful for researchers and students in tourism studies, communication and media studies and applied linguistics.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction
1. Genre Analysis
2. Systemic Functional Grammar
3. Visual Analysis
4. Aural Analysis
5. Multimodal and Intermodal Analysis
Conclusion
Glossary
Genre-based Bibliography
References
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