'A taste of this lively language': attitudes towards languages other than English in lonely planet phrasebooks

This paper addresses language attitudes towards non-English, mostly non-Western, languages in the phrasebooks published by Lonely Planet for English-speaking travellers to multilingual regions of the Global South. Specifically, this paper examines attitudes towards the languages exemplified in Lonel...

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Published inJournal of multicultural discourses Vol. 12; no. 3; pp. 222 - 238
Main Author Hallett, Richard W.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 03.07.2017
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
CDS
Dictionaries
English language
global south
Handbooks
Language attitudes
phrasebooks
Pidgins
Tourism
transcultural texts
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Summary:This paper addresses language attitudes towards non-English, mostly non-Western, languages in the phrasebooks published by Lonely Planet for English-speaking travellers to multilingual regions of the Global South. Specifically, this paper examines attitudes towards the languages exemplified in Lonely Planet's second edition of Africa: Phrasebook and Dictionary ( 2013 ), second edition of India: Phrasebook and Dictionary ( 2014 ), fourth edition of Pidgin: Phrasebook ( 2015 ), third edition of Hill Tribes (2008), second edition of South Pacific Phrasebook (2008), and third edition of Southeast Asia: Phrasebook and Dictionary ( 2013 ). In so doing, this research argues that the phrasebooks describe these languages and their speakers as exotic, monolithic, simplistic, and deterministic; and construct the traveller's efforts to use these languages as acts of benevolence.
ISSN:1744-7143
1747-6615
DOI:10.1080/17447143.2017.1343830