This
paper reports on a research project in
Responsible Tourism (Prayag, Hosany, & Odeh, 2013) carried out at the
University of Salento in collaboration with the local administrations of some
seaside resorts in Southern Italy affected by migrants’ massive arrivals. This
project, which involves tourists, migrants, university students in
intercultural mediation and local communities, applies a model of Experiential-Linguistics (Lakoff & Johnson, 1999)
to a multimodal Ethnopoetic analysis
(Hymes, 2003; Kress, 2009) of (a)
non-Western migrants’ traumatic accounts of journeys across the sea, reported
in their own ELF variations (Guido, 2008, 2018), (b) Western epic narratives of
Mediterranean dramatic voyages rendered from Ancient Greek and Latin into
modern ELF variations, and (c) multimodal representations of the ethnopoetic
rhythms of such ancient and modern sea-journey narratives through the
production of a promotional video. The aim is to highlight the experiential
common roots shared by classical-epic and contemporary migration narratives.
Three main research phases will be explored, which are characterised by pedagogical
activities meant to foster an active, multicultural community integration, as
well as a view of tourism as an inclusive social experience.
Birincil Dil | İngilizce |
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Bölüm | Articles |
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Yayımlanma Tarihi | 31 Temmuz 2019 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2019 Cilt: 5 Sayı: 2 |