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Challenges within the ecology of multilingual interactions in Aboriginal cultural tourism in Central Australia

Elizabeth M Ellis

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Abstract

This chapter explores some of the sociolinguistic issues raised by multilingual language use and interpreting in tourism services in a key Aboriginal-owned culturally significant site: Uluru in Central Australia. It reports on a project which investigated the challenges presented by different modes of foreign-language tour guiding, commenting on the accuracy, cultural appropriateness and semantic nuances of information given to visitors in different languages. It documents the complexities of this multilingual situation and discusses how the challenges are met from the perspective of ideologies about language, different understandings of interpreting and translation, and the nature of cross-linguistic interaction.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Multilingual Challenge: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
EditorsUlrike Jessner, Claire Kramsch
Place of PublicationBerlin, Germany
PublisherWalter de Gruyter
Pages323-346
Edition1
ISBN (Print)9781614515555, 9781614512165
Publication statusPublished - 2015

Publication series

NameTrends in Applied Linguistics
Number16
ISSN (Electronic)1868-6362

Keywords

  • Translation and Interpretation Studies
  • Tourism
  • Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics

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