The presentation of landscape: rhetorical conventions and the promotion of tourism in British Columbia, 1900-1990

This thesis argues that landscapes are products of language, that the meaning of a landscape depends upon how it is presented and interpreted in the course of human communication. It is also argued that the field of rhetoric—as a body of theory, ideas, and methods for interpreting the persuasive...

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Main Author: Nelson, Ronald Ross
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7026