Language and Tourism in Postcolonial Settings

Angelika Mietzner is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of African Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research interests include Nilotic languages, African sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics and tourism. Anne Storch is a Professor in the Institute of African Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany. She has published widely on African languages, African sociolinguistics, tourism and critical heritage studies, metalinguistic discourse and colonial linguistics.

Preface. Tawona Sitholé: cape coast caper



Chapter 1. Angelika Mietzner & Anne Storch: Linguistic Entanglements, Emblematic Codes and Representation in Tourism: Introduction



Chapter 2. Christiane M. Bongartz: Transformations of the ‘Tourist Gaze’: Landscaping and the Linguist Behind the Lens



Chapter 3. Luís Cronopio: Backpacking Performances: An Empirical Contribution



Chapter 4. Sara Zavaree: "We have our own Africans": Public Displays of Zār in Iran



Chapter 5. Angelika Mietzner: Cameras as Barriers of Understanding: Reflections on a Philanthropic Journey to Kenya



Chapter 6. Anne Storch: Heritage Tourism and the Freak Show: A Study on Names, Horror, Race and Gender



Chapter 7. Raymund Vitorio: Postcolonial Performativity in the Philippine Heritage Tourism Industry



Chapter 8. Nico Nassenstein: The Hakuna Matata Swahili: Linguistic Souvenirs from the Kenyan Coast



Afterword. Adam Jaworski: Between Silence and Noise: Towards an Entangled Sociolinguistics of Tourism



Bookend. Alison Phipps: cape ghost



Index