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ELF Users’ Attitudes and Orientations in Tourism Interaction ...
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Abstract:
Tourism English is an interesting domain of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) research because it can provide sociocultural, discursive, and sociolinguistic insights into a kind of professional genre that has not been extensively researched within or under the ELF branch of Applied Linguistics so far. The proposed investigation involves some tourist industry service providers and tourists interacting for a variety of reasons (e.g. leisure, culture, entertainment, sport, cuisine etc.) in order to probe their orientations and attitudes towards the use of English as a Multilingua Franca (Jenkins 2015). Adopting a poststructuralist approach and drawing upon the ethnographic interviews taken from among 27 participants in a study conducted in Italy, I explore evidence of participants’ consciousness of intercultural accommodation and attitudes towards multilingual resources in ELF encounters (Cogo 2016). Moreover, I scrutinise their cognizance of the strategic potential of pragmatic resources to enable them to ... : Iperstoria, No 18 (2021): Tourism Discourse in the 21st Century: Challenges and New Directions ...
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Keyword:
multilingual resources in ELF; intercultural accommodation; speakers’ attitudes; tourism English; interactional sociolinguistics
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URL: https://iperstoria.it/article/view/1019
https://dx.doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2021.i18.1019
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