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Publication details [#63072]

Hallett, Richard W. 2017. ‘A taste of this lively language’: attitudes towards languages other than English in lonely planet phrasebooks. Journal of multicultural discourses 12 (3) : 222–238.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This article handles language attitudes towards non-English, mainly non-Western, languages in the phrasebooks edited by Lonely Planet for English-speaking travellers to multilingual regions of the Global South. In so doing, this inquiry asserts that the phrasebooks describe these languages and their speakers as exotic, monolithic, simplistic, and deterministic; and construct the traveller’s attempts to employ these languages as acts of goodwill.