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In:Handbook of Pragmatics: 29th Annual Installment
Edited by Frank Brisard, Sigurd D’hondt, Mieke Vandenbroucke and Jana Declercq
[Handbook of Pragmatics 29] 2026
► pp. 121–143

Tourism

 | Université de Lorraine
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Towards the study of language and tourism
    • 2.1Interdisciplinary contributions
    • 2.2Language and tourism: First steps
    • 2.3Towards a sociolinguistics of tourism
  • 3.The discursive elaboration of tourism
    • 3.1A multimodal approach
    • 3.2Tourism as a key situation
  • 4.Language and commodification in tourism
    • 4.1Authentification, exoticisation, spectacularisation
    • 4.2(Re)configuring linguistic marketplaces
    • 4.3Reciprocal theoretical enrichment
  • 5.Performing elite global(ised) identities
  • 6.Privilege and inequalities
  • 7.Banal globalisation
  • 8.Recent advances and future challenges
  • Author queries
  • Notes
  • References
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