Overview
- Offers a unique examination of the adventure tourism sector from a comparative perspective
- Deals with many of the key issues in the contemporary study of language
- Responds to the rise in interest in tourism as a space of mobility and transnationalism
Part of the book series: Language and Globalization (LAGL)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“Engagingly written and loaded with illuminating case studies across two hemispheres, this book provides new insights into the sociolinguistics of tourism that will enrich every reader’s understanding of the complex relationship between language, mobilities, tourist work and globalisation. The book is empirically rich and theoretically comprehensive. Combining ethnographic fieldwork with personal reflections, Kellie Gonçalves also shows how to navigate qualitative research processes and reflectively engage with established research practices.” (Sari Pietikäinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
“Read this book and next time you bungee jump, or – like me – watch it on YouTube, you will understand that there’s more to it than the adrenaline rush and the force of gravity. As Kellie Gonçalves brilliantly demonstrates, adventure tourism is a nexus of global mobility, discursive formations of selfhood, and mediatized lifestyles.” (Adam Jaworski, University of Hong Kong)“Take a leap off a cliff – holding firmly onto this book – into the extreme sociolinguistics of adventure tourism. In this fascinating, important and carefully-researched study, Kellie Gonçalves takes us to two global adventure meccas – Interlaken and Queenstown – and shows how (precarious) labour, (plenty of) leisure and (devotion to) lifestyle intersect with language, place, mobility and gender.” (Alastair Pennycook, University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Labour Policies, Language Use and the ‘New’ Economy
Book Subtitle: The Case of Adventure Tourism
Authors: Kellie Gonçalves
Series Title: Language and Globalization
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48705-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48704-1Published: 10 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48707-2Published: 11 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48705-8Published: 09 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2947-7506
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7514
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 277
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Intercultural Communication, Semiotics, Language Policy and Planning, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sport Science