Publications

Publication details [#59135]

Chiwanga, Fredrick E. 2014. Understanding the language of tourism: Tanzanian perspective. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 24 (2) : 147–200.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative efficiency | ethnomethodology | language for special purposes | professional language | understanding

Place, Publisher

Wiley

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

Drawing on ethno-methodological and textual data from Tanzanian tourism practitioners, this article addresses the mediation between language competence and the factual language use in the field of tourism and underlines areas that require clear comprehension.