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    Mapping the travel blog : a study of the online travel narrative

    Azariah D.R. 2012.pdf (3.848Mb)
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    Authors
    Azariah, Deepti Ruth
    Date
    2012
    Supervisor
    Dr Deborah Hunn
    Type
    Thesis
    Award
    PhD
    
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    School of Media, Culture, and Creative Arts, Department of Communication and Cultural Studies
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1027
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    • Curtin Theses
    Abstract

    This thesis examines the discursive tension between travel and tourism and analyses how narrative techniques negotiate this in travel blogs. This discursive analysis uses various theories of narrative and self-presentation, particularly Bakhtin’s heteroglossia, polyphony, and speech genres, Goffman’s theories of self-presentation, and Graham Dann’s framework for tourist discourse. It finds that the underlying discursive tensions in travel blogs indicate a need for a more flexible approach to defining and analysing this form of communication.

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