‘Please Do not Stand over the Buddha’s Head (Pay Respect)’: Mediations of Tourist and Researcher Experience in Thailand

‘Please Do not Stand over the Buddha’s Head (Pay Respect)’: Mediations of Tourist and Researcher Experience in Thailand

This paper examines signs mediating tourist experience in temples and heritage sites in Thailand, paying particular attention to how language is used on signs, the semiotic make-up of the signs, and the economy of discourses embedded within those signs. Utilizing a geosemiotic approach (Scollon and...

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Main Authors: Andrew Jocuns, Ingrid de Saint-Georges, Nawasri Chonmahatrakul, Jantima Angkapanichkit
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LED - Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto 2015-08-01
Series:Lingue Culture Mediazioni
Subjects:
geosemiotics
mediation
Thailand
tourism
relational inquiry
Online Access:http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/LCM-Journal/article/view/832

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