Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: The paper deals with an excursion as a genre of oral communication which has its strict structure.The strategies of an excursion text are revealed and discovered.The authors consider the peculiarities of the guide-interpreter's language identity as a discourse factor of an excursion and analyze the specific features of the guideinterpreter's communicative actions in different parts of an excursion.The authors determine the influence of the guide-interpreter's professional and discourse pragmatically adequate strategies on the realization of an excursion communicative actions program and reveal the factors that have an impact on the guide-interpreter's choice of linguistic means during an excursion.Key words: guide, guide-interpreter, interpreter's language identity, tourist discourse, tour guidance, excursion Excursion as a way of intercultural communicationResearch of different tourism aspects is presented by numerous papers by modern authors.G. Dann's papers are devoted to the tourism language analysis (1996).M. Rázusová pays particular attention in her papers to the language as a part of tourist discourse.The significance of semiotics for tourist discourse is explained in the papers by J. Culler (1981), M. Danesi (1998), C. Echtner (1999), J. Frow ( 1991), M. Mehmetoglu & G. Dann (2003).The peculiarities of cultural tourism are shown by the papers of E. Bruner (2005), J. Henderson (2001), H. Hughes, & D. Allen (2005), B. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (1998), A. Pritchard & N. Morgan (2001).Culture, history, traditions, natural resources, landscape, all is under the researchers' focused attention.A favorable image of the so-called strange, foreign country and propriety of the undertaken marketing strategies to make regions attractive for tourists depend on successful communication within intercultural tourist discourse.Tourist discourse is multifunctional and suspects many-sided research paradigms considering diverse genre peculiarity and the role which tourism plays in the modern society.In the context of achieving successful international cultural tourism communication, we consider it to be interesting, logical and actual to appeal to the research of one of the most needed type of tourist activity -excursion activity and, as Alefirenko mentions, "the integration of the discursive and linguocultural consciousness is so organic that it is extremely difficult to give an adequate interpretation of discourse without it"
Source: XLinguae
Institution: Volgograd State University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2343584560