Alison Phipps is Director of Graduate Development for Arts, Humanities and Education at the University of Glasgow, where she teaches modern languages, comparative literature, anthropology and intercultural studies. Her books include Acting Identities (2000), Contemporary German Cultural Studies (ed. 2002), Modern Languages: Learning and Teaching in an Intercultural Field (2004) with Mike Gonzalez, Critical Pedagogy: Political Approaches to Languages and Intercultural Communication (ed. 2004) with Manuela Guilherme and Tourism and Intercultural Exchange (2005) with Gavin Jack.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Languages, Tourism and Life2. Educating Tourists3. Risks4. Way Finding5. Pronunciation6. Conversation7. Games8. Rehearsing Speech9. Breaking English10. Tourist Language Learners11. SurvivingAfterwordBibliography

Language and difference have always pushed against the boundaries of certainty, authoritarianism, and hope. In this beautifully written, poetic, and brilliantly insightful book, Alison Phipps addresses the social, cultural, and political implications of learning to speak a tourist language and its broader implications for a meaningful sense of dialogue, cultural change, and democracy itself. Moreover, Phipps offers us a new way of understanding learning as a form of public pedagogy that takes place outside traditional sites of learning and in doing so constitutes a pedagogical space rich with the possibilities of desire, agency, and a global cosmopolitanism. This may be one of the most important books written on language, pedagogy, and tourism in the last fifty years and hopefully will be widely read by anyone wishing to enter the changing conditions of a global democracy.

Alison Phipps is Director of Graduate Development for Arts, Humanities and Education at the University of Glasgow, where she teaches modern languages, comparative literature, anthropology and intercultural studies. Her books include Acting Identities (2000), Contemporary German Cultural Studies (ed. 2002), Modern Languages: Learning and Teaching in an Intercultural Field (2004) with Mike Gonzalez, Critical Pedagogy: Political Approaches to Languages and Intercultural Communication (ed. 2004) with Manuela Guilherme and Tourism and Intercultural Exchange (2005) with Gavin Jack.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Languages, Tourism and Life2. Educating Tourists3. Risks4. Way Finding5. Pronunciation6. Conversation7. Games8. Rehearsing Speech9. Breaking English10. Tourist Language Learners11. SurvivingAfterwordBibliography

Language and difference have always pushed against the boundaries of certainty, authoritarianism, and hope. In this beautifully written, poetic, and brilliantly insightful book, Alison Phipps addresses the social, cultural, and political implications of learning to speak a tourist language and its broader implications for a meaningful sense of dialogue, cultural change, and democracy itself. Moreover, Phipps offers us a new way of understanding learning as a form of public pedagogy that takes place outside traditional sites of learning and in doing so constitutes a pedagogical space rich with the possibilities of desire, agency, and a global cosmopolitanism. This may be one of the most important books written on language, pedagogy, and tourism in the last fifty years and hopefully will be widely read by anyone wishing to enter the changing conditions of a global democracy.

Alison Phipps is Director of Graduate Development for Arts, Humanities and Education at the University of Glasgow, where she teaches modern languages, comparative literature, anthropology and intercultural studies. Her books include Acting Identities (2000), Contemporary German Cultural Studies (ed. 2002), Modern Languages: Learning and Teaching in an Intercultural Field (2004) with Mike Gonzalez, Critical Pedagogy: Political Approaches to Languages and Intercultural Communication (ed. 2004) with Manuela Guilherme and Tourism and Intercultural Exchange (2005) with Gavin Jack.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Languages, Tourism and Life2. Educating Tourists3. Risks4. Way Finding5. Pronunciation6. Conversation7. Games8. Rehearsing Speech9. Breaking English10. Tourist Language Learners11. SurvivingAfterwordBibliography

Language and difference have always pushed against the boundaries of certainty, authoritarianism, and hope. In this beautifully written, poetic, and brilliantly insightful book, Alison Phipps addresses the social, cultural, and political implications of learning to speak a tourist language and its broader implications for a meaningful sense of dialogue, cultural change, and democracy itself. Moreover, Phipps offers us a new way of understanding learning as a form of public pedagogy that takes place outside traditional sites of learning and in doing so constitutes a pedagogical space rich with the possibilities of desire, agency, and a global cosmopolitanism. This may be one of the most important books written on language, pedagogy, and tourism in the last fifty years and hopefully will be widely read by anyone wishing to enter the changing conditions of a global democracy.