Call for papers: "Tourism Discourse: Local and Global Perspectives"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Tourism Anthropology.

With the growth of the tourism industry globally, tourism discourse is enriched when more and more people are involved in travelling and entering diverse communicative situations. According to Schiffrin, Tannen and Hamilton (2001), discourse has been generally defined from three aspects: (1) anything beyond the sentence, (2) language use and (3) a broader range of social practice that includes non-linguistic and nonspecific instances of language (Pritchard & Jaworski, 2005, p.3).

Given the rich meaning of this concept, discourse requires both local and global approaches to understand the language of tourism as well as social norms, values and ideologies (Coupland & Jaworski, 2001).

This special issue seeks to publish leading-edge research that investigates how tourism shapes discourse about people and places from both local and global perspectives. It aims to exchange knowledge on a broad range of issues relating to discourse in the context of tourism. Conceptual, empirical and case-based papers are all encouraged. Submissions by authors from different disciplines are welcome.

References

Coupland, N., & Jaworski, A. (2001). Discourse. In P. Cobley (ed). The Routledge 

Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics (pp. 134-148). London: Routledge. 

Pritchard, A. & Jaworski, A. (2005). Discourse, communication and tourism dialogues. In A. 

Jaworski, & A. Pritchard (eds). Discourse, Communication, and Tourism (pp. 1-13). 

Buffalo and Toronto: Channel View Publications. 

Schiffrin, D., Tannen, D., & Hamilton, H. E. (2001). Introduction. In D. Schiffrin, D. Tannen 

& H.E. Hamilton (eds). The Handbook of Discourse Analysis (pp. 1-10). Oxford: Blackwell.

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

• Construction of self and others through tourism and travel
• Making/remaking of identities of people or places
• Representations of tourist experiences through printed/online textual/visual messages
• Representations of local languages in tourist genres
• Political discourse and tourism
• The role of discourse in stakeholder engagement in events
• Policy discourse and tourism development
• The discourse of power in the context of tourism
• Local discourses and sustainable tourism
• The discourse of authenticity
• Tourism discourse: theory and applications
• Theoretic frameworks and approaches to understand tourism discourse

Important Dates

Deadline for submission of manuscript: 1 March, 2014