Publications
Publication details [#55188]
Kelly-Holmes, Helen and Sari Pietikäinen. 2011. The local political economy of languages in a Sámi tourism destination: Authenticity and mobility in the labelling of souvenirs. Journal of Sociolinguistics 15 (3) : 323–346.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study draws on ethnographic and discourse analytic perspectives to explore how the labelling of tourist souvenirs in the multilingual Sámi village of Inari in Northern Finland influences, and is influenced by, the local political language economy in a minority language tourist destination.