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Learning the Arts of Linguistic Survival - Languaging, Tourism, Life (Paperback)
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Learning the Arts of Linguistic Survival - Languaging, Tourism, Life (Paperback)
Series: Tourism and Cultural Change
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In this ground-breaking contribution to the study of tourism and
languages, Alison Phipps examines what happens when tourists learn
to speak other languages. From ordering a coffee to following
directions she argues for a new perception of the relationship
between tourism and languages from one based on the acquisition of
basic, functional skills to one which sustains and even strengthens
intercultural dialogue. The twelve chapters comprising this book
tell stories of the experience of learning and speaking tourist
languages. Drawing on a range of disciplines Alison Phipps takes
the reader on a journey through risk, way finding, mistakes,
laughter, conversations and the imagination. She provides rich
descriptions of the world of language learning which has remained
invisible to mainstream studies of language education, existing as
it does on the margins of educational life. She shows how tourism
is shaped by the learning experiences of everyday life. Languages,
she argues passionately, fundamentally change the nature of
perception, dwelling and relationships to other people and the
world. This book will be essential reading for all those interested
in tourism studies and in modern languages education. It is a
timely study, coming at time of crisis in languages, as English
exerts its power as a world language and as a dominant language of
tourism. Learning the Arts of Linguistic Survival: Languaging,
Tourism, Life will also be of interest to anthropologists,
linguists, geographers, sociologists and those studying education.
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