Voase, Richard (2000) Explaining the blandness of popular travel journalism: narrative, cliché and the structure of meaning. In: Tourism 2000: Time for Celebration, 2-7 September 2000, Sheffield Hallam University.
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This paper is about the language used in travel journalism. Specifically, it is about the role of cliché in the language of the mass-market televised holiday programme. An analysis of the discourse of such shows reveals that, since the tourist experience is defined in the mind and is thus individual to each viewer, the recourse to cliché is the unavoidable consequence of the need to provide a framework onto which the viewer can impress their own responses: a discourse without a story. Cliché is thus an indispensable linguistic device in popular travel journalism.
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| Additional Information: | This paper is about the language used in travel journalism. Specifically, it is about the role of cliché in the language of the mass-market televised holiday programme. An analysis of the discourse of such shows reveals that, since the tourist experience is defined in the mind and is thus individual to each viewer, the recourse to cliché is the unavoidable consequence of the need to provide a framework onto which the viewer can impress their own responses: a discourse without a story. Cliché is thus an indispensable linguistic device in popular travel journalism. |
| Keywords: | cliché, discourse, ideology, narrative, travel, journalism |
| Subjects: | P Mass Communications and Documentation > P500 Journalism |
| Divisions: | College of Social Sciences > Faculty of Business & Law > Lincoln Business School |
| Depositing User: | Richard Voase |
| Date Deposited: | 15 May 2012 06:19 |
| Last Modified: | 15 May 2012 06:19 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/5545 |
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