Using the Tourist Gaze in English and
Italian Travel Blogs, Trip Reports and
Reviews to better Promote Florence
Angela D’Egidio
University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
[email protected]
CLAVIER 13 CONFERENCE - November 7th, 2013 – Modena
What is the Tourist Gaze?
- “Model of perception tourists adopt while
performing the practice of ‘sightseeing’
(Francesconi 2007: 47)
- Unique objects, “famous for being
famous” (Urry, 2002:12), and out-of-theordinary or unfamiliar aspects
-It is evident in travel blogs, trip reports and
reviews
a RELIABLE
SOURCE OF INFORMATION
on
REAL TRAVEL EXPERIENCES.
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AIMS
1. Show how Italian (INSIDERS) and
American, British, Australian, Canadian, Irish and international
(OUTSIDERS) travel bloggers, reporters and reviewers
perceive and experience Florence and Lecce;
2. Outline a model of INSIDER T.G. and a model of OUTSIDER T.G.;
3. Understand how the model of OUTSIDER gaze may be embedded in
the translation of travel guides/website of Florence and Lecce
Tourist Boards into ELF
REMEDIATION,
RECONTEXTUALIZATION,
REFORMULATION.
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Materials and Methods
1. Five comparable corpora of travel blogs and trip reports describing
itineraries including Florence or Lecce
a) Two word frequency lists: whole itinerary/Florence or Lecce;
2. Five comparable corpora of TripAdvisor travel reviews describing
attractions of Florence or Lecce
a) One word frequency list for each attraction;
3. Qualitative,
quantitative
and
contrastive
analysis
of
lemmas/words/semantic fields
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Conclusions
Global/outsider gaze is different from the local/insider gaze
Outsiders:
1. Higher degree of distortion of reality;
2. More critical towards the high number of tourists;
3. More analytical and detailed when describing landmark sights.
IN
TRANSLATION
RECONTEXUALISATION
REFORMULATION
Common patterns of the model of
OUTSIDER GAZE
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Thank you for your attention
Any Questions?
Angela D’Egidio
University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
[email protected]
CLAVIER 13 CONFERENCE - November 7th, 2013 – Modena
References
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Francesconi, S. 2007. English for Tourism Promotion: Italy in British Tourism Texts. Milano:
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Katan D. (2012) Translating the tourist gaze: from heritage and ‘culture’ to actual encounter
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Tognini Bonelli, E. (2001). Working with corpora across languages. Corpus at Work. (pp. 131156). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
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Urry, J. & Larsen, J. 2011. The tourist gaze 3.0. 3rd ed. ed. London: Sage Publications.
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