Official Tourism Websites A Discourse Analysis Perspective

by Hallett, Richard W.; Kaplan-Weinger, Judith

• ISBN13: 9781845411374
• ISBN10: 1845411374
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-24
• Publisher: Channel View Publications

Summary

This text explores tourism websites as mediums of identity construction and promotion. As interactive modes of communication, tourism websites for nations, cities, and attractions function critically in the new capitalism as calls for social action in contributing to economic and social rebirth, growth, and preservation.

Author Biography

Richard W. Hallett is Professor of Linguistics at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, IL. He received his PhD in linguistics from the University of South Carolina. In addition to the discourse of tourism, his research interests include second language acquisition, sociolinguistics and World Englishes.
Judith Kaplan-Weinger is Professor of Linguistics at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, IL. She earned her PhD in linguistics from Georgetown University. Her teaching and research interests lie in, aside from language and tourism, the multi-modal discourse analysis of grief and mourning.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Identity and the World Wide Web Methods of Analysis

3. Narrative of the Nation: Baltic Tourism Websites in the Post-Soviet Context

4. The Tourist as Pilgrim, The Pilgrim as Tourist: Santiago de Compostela

5. Rebirth of an American City: New Orleans, Louisiana

6. '100 Years…Steel Strong': Forging an Identity for Gary, Indiana

7. The Tourist as Patriot: Sports and Nationalism

8. Balancing Promotion and Warning in the Construction of National Identity in Travel Guides: The Case of Myanmar/Burma

9. Constructing Self vs. Other in Parodic Travel Guides

10. Conclusion: On Tourism, Identity, and the World Wide Web