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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Guidebooks"”.
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The role and use of travel guidebooks by Japanese overseas tourists
Travel guidebooks are one of many information sources available to potential and actual tourists and perhaps one of the most common. Although information search has been an extensively researched area in tourism studies, there are few studies which have specifically investigated the topic of travel …
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Travel guidebooks and the independent traveller in the Asia Pacific Region
… needs and search with a specific focus on travel guidebooks. A cross cultural approach has been taken and travellers from Japan, Korea, China, and North America have been surveyed. This research is quantitative in nature and the data have been analysed through the use of factor analysis and …
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Sublime Views and Picturesque Embellishments: Westward Expansion and “Progress” in Gilded Age Guidebooks Illustration
… and romantic reading of the landscape. Guidebooks immersed the reader in the progressive narrative of the guidebooks. The authors utilize language that assumes the readers are riding along the transcontinental path as they read, and the imagery serves to engage the readers’ imaginations …
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Content Analysis of State Education Department Guidebooks on Teaching About Communism in Terms of a Theory of Teaching
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T21:24:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6706721.pdf: 8719415 bytes, checksum: f3178373873e6eb0007b033b8fc01b01 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1966
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The development of British First World War remembrance on the battlefield from 1914 to 1929
… guided to and through the battlefields, both by guidebooks and by tour operators, and how these sought to influence individual experiences. It examines how individual visitors sometimes went outside the framework of tours and published itineraries, and made their own attempts to connect with …
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The touristic text and sociopolitical struggle: An application of the principles of Mikhail Bakhtin to the study of tour guidebooks of Japan, 1955 to 1991. (Volumes I and II)
… editions from two series of comprehensive guidebooks to Japan: the Fodor's guidebook series, 1962 through 1990; and the Japan Travel Bureau's Japan, the Official Guide, 1955 through 1991. The textual material in each of the guidebook series is considered as the product of communicative acts …
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The postcolonial playground: colonial narratives in contemporary tourism
… of twentieth and twenty-first century novels, guidebooks, magazines, and the social media platform Instagram illustrates the discursive paradigm by which Western backpacking tourists encounter the formerly colonized world. The "postcolonial playground" avails the non-Western world as a theatre …
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CREATING AN IMAGE, SHAPING A DESTINATION IN CHACHAPOYAS, PERU
… Peru by identifying themes found in tourism guidebooks and websites. Photographs and written descriptions of Chachapoyas were found to emphasize certain features of the region while avoiding or hiding others. To further inform the discussion of the place image of Chachapoyas interviews were …
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CREATING AN IMAGE, SHAPING A DESTINATION IN CHACHAPOYAS, PERU
… Peru by identifying themes found in tourism guidebooks and websites. Photographs and written descriptions of Chachapoyas were found to emphasize certain features of the region while avoiding or hiding others. To further inform the discussion of the place image of Chachapoyas interviews were …
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Promoting the "classroom and playground of Europe": Swiss private school prospectuses and education-focused tourism guides, 1890-1945
… two series of education-focused tourism guidebooks which promoted education in Switzerland. An examination of a Swiss National Tourist Office series reveals discourses of nationhood racialised the Swiss as natural-born pedagogues and constructed Switzerland as a safe, moral destination …
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"Knowing is Seeing:" The Digital Audio Workstation and the Visualization of Sound
… DAW user manuals, as well as interface design guidebooks, this dissertation will address the ways these visualizations and methods of working affect the workflow, composition style and musical conceptions of DAW-based producers.
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(Don't) Stop Playing That Game: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Video Game Addiction Stereotype
… context, and I present examples of game guidebooks and comic books published in the late 1970s and early 1980s to illustrate their rhetorical responses to game addiction rhetoric. I found addiction arguments utilize fear appeals combined with ethos, pathos, and logos to persuade audiences …
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Reading the map: geographic space, reading publics, and the shaping of nineteenth-century American identity, 1803-1898
… narratives, textbooks, travel and railway guidebooks, maps and atlases, each of which has its own story to tell about the production of the space “America” between the Louisiana Purchase and the Spanish-American War. At the center of my discussion of these different kinds of texts lies the …
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Mourning at Mount Vernon: Memory, Commemoration, and Thanatourism in the Creation of Nineteenth-Century American Identity
… of letters, travel journals, newspapers, guidebooks, and official Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association Minutes and Records, I assert that the thanatourism was a response to desires for a unified national identity and promoted this identity through speeches and publications, emotional reactions …
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Stepping over the threshold of time: The Brezhnev era and the rise of the heritage temporality (1964-1982)
… a historical discourse analysis based on visitor guidebooks and brochures related to three museums dedicated to Vladimir Lenin, settings its findings in contrast with the wider literature on the Brezhnev period. Noting that a rise of concern for heritage preservation matters in the Soviet Union …
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Opus Ignotum
… not be all seriousness, though; where in the guidebooks of literature does it say that witnessing destruction cannot, on occasion, be fun?
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'Scotland the Real':the representation of traditional music in Scottish tourism
… as folksong collectors, travel writers and guidebooks authors based their judgements of musical authenticity upon the printed text. The folk revival of the 1950s resulted in a fundamental rupture in discursive formations of authenticity, leading to assessments of the “real” being based upon …
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