Wales underground: discursive frames and authenticities in Welsh mining heritage tourism events. | Coupland, N., Garrett, P., Bishop, H. | Discourse, communication and tourism

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Title: Wales underground: discursive frames and authenticities in Welsh mining heritage tourism events.
Personal Authors: Coupland, N., Garrett, P., Bishop, H.
Author Affiliation: Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales CF10 3XQ, UK.
Editors: Jaworski, A., Pritchard, A.
Document Title: Discourse, communication and tourism

Abstract:

Following a brief review of the literature on heritage tourism, this chapter takes a sociolinguistic approach to explore how discourse practices of heritage tourism events can themselves deploy or invoke notions of authenticity. It does so by analysing textual data (promotional literature, display texts such as posters, and fragments of spoken interaction) from three sites, which are all visitor attractions linked to mining industries in Wales, UK. The chapter shows how different, internally coherent systems of authentic experience inform these texts. Moving away from arguably unitary discussions of 'heritage inauthenticity', the chapter suggests that specific heritage tourism events in specific discursive frames actually offer their visitors rather rich resources for an authentic experience.

Publisher: Channel View Publications

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