LINGUIST List 17.3523

Wed Nov 29 2006

Books: Sociolinguistics: Phipps

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Directory         1.    Kathryn King, Learning the Arts of Linguistic Survival: Phipps

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Message 1: Learning the Arts of Linguistic Survival: Phipps
Date: 29-Nov-2006
From: Kathryn King <marketingmultilingual-matters.com>
Subject: Learning the Arts of Linguistic Survival: Phipps


Title: Learning the Arts of Linguistic Survival Subtitle: Languaging, Tourism, Life Series Title: Tourism and Cultural Change Published: 2006 Publisher: Multilingual Matters
                http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/display.asp?isb=184541053X

Author: Alison Phipps Electronic: ISBN: 1845410556 Pages: 208 Price: U.K. £ 49.95
Hardback: ISBN: 1845410548 Pages: 208 Price: U.K. £ 49.95
Paperback: ISBN: 184541053X Pages: 208 Price: U.K. £ 19.95
Abstract:

In this ground-breaking contribution to the study of tourism and languages,Alison Phipps examines what happens when tourists learn to speak otherlanguages. From ordering a coffee to following directions she argues for anew perception of the relationship between tourism and languages from onebased on the acquisition of basic, functional skills to one which sustainsand even strengthens intercultural dialogue.

The twelve chapters comprising this book tell stories of the experience oflearning and speaking tourist languages. Drawing on a range of disciplinesAlison Phipps takes the reader on a journey through risk, way finding,mistakes, laughter, conversations and the imagination. She provides richdescriptions of the world of language learning which has remained invisibleto mainstream studies of language education, existing as it does on themargins of educational life. She shows how tourism is shaped by thelearning experiences of everyday life. Languages, she argues passionately,fundamentally change the nature of perception, dwelling and relationshipsto other people and the world.

This book will be essential reading for all those interested in tourismstudies and in modern languages education. It is a timely study, coming attime of crisis in languages, as English exerts its power as a worldlanguage and as a dominant language of tourism. Learning the Arts ofLinguistic Survival: Languaging, Tourism, Life will also be of interest toanthropologists, linguists, geographers, sociologists and those studyingeducation.

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
Written In: English (eng )

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