Iperstoria is a Class A multilingual, international, blind peer-reviewed biannual journal focusing on English and American Studies with a multidisciplinary / transdisciplinary approach.
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Tourism discourse in the 21st century: challenges and new directions Editors
Tourism discourse, as developed across a wide variety of Internet sites, social media, and content sharing platforms, is populated by a range of linguistic and multimodal devices aimed at encouraging the engagement of users with the content provided. The increased ease of access to the Internet and subsequent growth of available resources goes hand in hand with the development of opportunities for providing the customers of the tourism industry with the essential information they may require. At the same time, promoting destinations is not the only role of digital tourism discourse. The expectations of customers and their experience can be managed by the interactive nature of the medium (Maci 2017). The Internet, in fact, can be said to have transformed the discourses of the tourism industry and the way in which relationships were traditionally created and maintained with its customers. In addition to traditional institutional and commercial material, social media and user-generated content (UGC) have indeed increasingly been taken into consideration as a data source in tourism studies, due to its potential influence on multiple aspects of tourism research, including destination marketing, electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWoM) and destination image (e.g. Pan et al. 2007; Wenger 2008). International tourism, which has until recently been considered to be a key economic sector both locally and internationally, is currently undergoing a moment of crisis due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The global travel industry, in fact, in the year 2020 reduced its activities dramatically by more than 90% (Fernandes 2020), with negative consequences which are spilling over into other businesses that rely on tourism. This has come about largely as a result of movement restrictions imposed by governments globally, who have limited travel to an unprecedented extent. The effects have led to significant difficulties in the tourism field. From the viewpoint of research, however, the ongoing situation provides researchers with the opportunity to study the “resilience of the tourism industry” (Prayag 2020). The emergency situation, in fact, may be considered to be a catalyst for the development of new communication modes and aims, which provide fertile terrain for researchers who wish to investigate evolving phenomena in the language being used as a part of the wider fields of both the English of Tourism (EoT) and in the teaching of that specific language, English for Tourism (EfT). The discourse of tourism has and is indeed changing due to the serious consequences of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. For this reason, a particular focus on such changes may lead to fruitful new avenues of inquiry for researchers. We welcome contributions in English or Italian that consider a wide range of texts, contexts, theoretical and methodological research approaches into tourism discourse, the English of Tourism (EoT) and the teaching of English for Tourism (EfT). Data sources may include, but are not limited to: institutional and commercial websites and social media accounts, user-generated content such as blogs, vlogs, wikis, reviews, search engines, reference materials. Submissions related (but not limited to) the following topics are particularly welcome:
References Prayag, Girish. “Time for a reset? Covd-19 and Tourism Resilience.” Tourism Review International 24.2-3 (2020): 179-184. Wenger, Anita. “Analysis of travel bloggers’ characteristics and their communication about Austria as a tourism destination.” Journal of Vacation Marketing 14.2 (2008): 169-176. Instructions for prospective authors Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the special issue editors regarding potential topics of interest or any questions/suggestions regarding the special issue. Abstracts (approx. 250 words) should be submitted directly to the editors via email (valeria.franceschi@univr.it, sharon.hartle@univr.it). The abstracts will be evaluated by the editors and notifications will be sent out shortly after. Submitted manuscripts must be original and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Submissions should be made via the journal’s website following the submission procedure detailed at https://iperstoria.it/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions Submissions will follow a process of double-blind peer review with independent referees. The final decision will be made according to the relevance to the special section, originality of research approaches, methodology soundness. All submitted manuscripts must be compliant with the Iperstoria author guidelines. Important datesMarch 15th 2021: abstract submission deadline March 31st 2021: abstract acceptance notification June 30th 2021: manuscript submission deadline September 1st 2021: Reviewers’ reports in (target date) October 1st, 2021: Revised manuscript submission deadline (estimated) December 2021: publication |
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - ISSUE 18 |
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Iperstoria is currently accepting abstract submissions for the general sections of our Fall 2021 issue. The contributions should be in the field of American studies or English language studies. Abstracts of about 250 words (either in English or Italian) must be submitted by email to redazione.iperstoria@gmail.com by March 30th, 2020. The essays will be due at the end of June 2021. We recomment adding a short bio note to your submission. |
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Current Issue
No 16 (2020): Transmedia Storytelling/Narrazioni Transmediali
Table of Contents
Foreword
Anna De Biasio, Valeria Gennero
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Articles: Special Section
Anna De Biasio
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Alessandro Clericuzio
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Andrea Pitozzi
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Angelo Maria Grossi
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Meghan Hurley-Powell
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Nicolangelo Becce
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Kyle Barrett
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Enrico Botta
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Articles (general section) - English language and linguistics
Sharon Hartle
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Dominic Stewart
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Articles (general section) - American language, literature, and culture
Giovanni Bottiroli
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Cristina Di Maio
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Giorgio Mariani
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Pilar Martínez Benedí
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Marco Petrelli
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Laura Santini
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Fulvia Sarnelli
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Reviews
Francesco Chianese
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Enrico Davanzo
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Serena Demichelis
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Michael Joseph Ennis
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Simone Francescato
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Angelo Maria Grossi
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Elena Mattei
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Nicola Paladin
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Nicola Paladin
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