Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables vi
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction Mediating Global Mobility: Language, Tourism, Globalization 1
Part I Discourses on the Move: The Genres and Symbolic Capital of Tourism
1 Elite Mobility and Global Lifestyles: Inflight Magazines 19
2 Borrowed Genres and the Language Market: Trade Signs and Business Cards 49
3 Transient Identities, New Mobilities: Holiday Postcards 91
Part II Mobilizing Language Ideologies: The Metalinguistic Production of Tourism Discourse
4 Linguascaping the Exotic: Newspaper Travelogues 129
5 Language Crossing and Identity Play: Television Holiday Shows 163
6 The Commodification of Local Linguacultures: Guidebook Glossaries 191
Conclusion Tourism Discourse and Banal Globalization 224
Appendix Summary of Data and Analytic Procedures 238
Notes 247
References 254
Index 274