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 caperChapter 1. Angelika Mietzner & Anne Storch: Linguistic Entanglements, Emblematic Codes and Representation in Tourism: IntroductionChapter 2. Christiane M. Bongartz: Transformations of the ‘Tourist Gaze’: Landscaping and the Linguist Behind the LensChapter 3. Luís Cronopio: Backpacking Performances: An Empirical ContributionChapter 4. Sara Zavaree: "We have our own Africans": Public Displays of Zār in IranChapter 5. Angelika Mietzner: Cameras as Barriers of Understanding: Reflections on a Philanthropic Journey to KenyaChapter 6. Anne Storch: Heritage Tourism and the Freak Show: A Study on Names, Horror, Race and GenderChapter 7. Raymund Vitorio: Postcolonial Performativity in the Philippine Heritage Tourism IndustryChapter 8. Nico Nassenstein: The Hakuna Matata Swahili: Linguistic Souvenirs from the Kenyan CoastAfterword. Adam Jaworski: Between Silence and Noise: Towards an Entangled Sociolinguistics of TourismBookend. Alison Phipps: cape ghostIndex

This stimulating collection of chapters offers critically-informed and semiotically-rich ethnographies of the making of the post-colonized-host and the post-colonizer-tourist-guest by unveiling the multilayered ideologies that shape their fleeting encounters. It is a superb contribution not only to the scholarship on Language and Tourism but also to a politically engaged sociolinguistics, which embraces a much-needed decolonial perspective.