VS-Socioling. and Varieties of English: Language and Tourism
Antje Wilton
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In this seminar, we will explore the relationship between (public) language use and the field of tourism. Tourism is a global societal domain in which language serves distinct purposes and manifests itself in a variety of genres and media. We will investigate, for instance, how language is used in transient linguistically and culturally mixed groups of people, how written interpretive infrastructure shapes the linguistic landscape of tourism sites, how language and visual semiotic elements structure gastronomic and medial promotion of touristic offers and how local languages are commodified as an economic resource in tourism. Students will engage more deeply with a topic of their choice in group student sessions, which they will plan and conduct themselves.
One highlight of the course will be a short joint COIL project on historic tourism sites with students and their lecturer from the German department of the University of Minnesota, Duluth. More information about this specific form of virtual cooperation can be found here: https://becoil.de/.
Please note that some knowledge of German is required for this course.
16 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung