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Introduction: Tourism spaces at the nexus of language and materiality

  • Gavin Lamb EMAIL logo and Bal Krishna Sharma ORCID logo
Published/Copyright: October 12, 2019

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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Published Online: 2019-10-12
Published in Print: 2021-03-26

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