Abstract
This special issue builds on sociolinguistic research in tourism, semiotic landscapes, language materiality, and multilingual and multimodal practices to explore how spaces for tourism are formed at the nexus of language and the material world.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: Tourism spaces at the nexus of language and materiality
- Tourist tongues: High-speed rail carries linguistic and cultural urbanisation beyond the city limits in Guangxi, China
- Basque gastronomic tourism: Creating value for Euskara through the materiality of language and drink
- The scarf, language, and other semiotic assemblages in the formation of a new Chinatown
- Spectacular sea turtles: Circuits of a wildlife ecotourism discourse in Hawai‘i
- The materialization of language in tourism networks
- Tourism tensions and sociolinguistic change
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: Tourism spaces at the nexus of language and materiality
- Tourist tongues: High-speed rail carries linguistic and cultural urbanisation beyond the city limits in Guangxi, China
- Basque gastronomic tourism: Creating value for Euskara through the materiality of language and drink
- The scarf, language, and other semiotic assemblages in the formation of a new Chinatown
- Spectacular sea turtles: Circuits of a wildlife ecotourism discourse in Hawai‘i
- The materialization of language in tourism networks
- Tourism tensions and sociolinguistic change