La part langagière du tourisme

Discover La part langagière du tourisme directed by Claudine Moise and Adam Wilson, published on March 2023 in the "Langage & société" journal of the Éditions de la MSH.

With the Covid-19 pandemic and the climatic upheavals, the tourist activity, pushed to transform itself and to find new ways of defining itself, asserts the central place, notably economic, that it occupies in the world. In the continuity of previous works in sociolinguistics on tourism, this dossier shows how, beyond textual analysis, critical sociolinguistics, based on ethnographic surveys, can seize this object to analyze, in discourse and in interaction, the ideological foundations of tourism practices.

As a first step, and in a desire to share the studies that have marked out the field, a 2010 article by Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow, key researchers and precursors of the sociolinguistics of tourism, is revised and translated into french in an unpublished manner under the title Des relations éphémères. Une sociolinguistique du tourisme. Secondly, the articles by Claudine Moïse, Larissa Schedel and Adam Wilson focus respectively on gendered tourism practices on the bangs of globalization in Provence, on the exploitation of plurilingualism in a language school in Malta, and on the search for freedom in nature tourism activities in Alsace. Finally, to open up other avenues of reflection, an interview with Jean-Didier Urbain, a semiologist whose numerous research projects have left their mark on the field of tourism, gives an account of the thinking at work, but also of the way in which tourism is apprehended, not only from the point of view of commodified activities but also from the point of view of the personal desires of tourists.

Directed by Claudine Moïse et Adam Wilson