Nowadays, tourism industry proposes different opportunities to live a vacation where the body is the main interest and the central focus of experience. Each form of tourism shows a particular universe of representation of the body and acorresponding emotional language. In this context, where bodies and spaces are associated and reciprocally constructed as symbolic languages for the benefit of the tourist’s “extraordinary experience”, cruise tourism is an interesting case in point to analyze above all because on cruises, people use the space of the ship in different ways and, at the same time, following general corporeal and spatial schemes. These uses and schemes reflect a particular conception of the body, built through an interaction of different systems of representation, which transforms the ship into a real and true space for social aggregation or separation.The analysis we propose has a double methodological purpose : it is based, on the one hand, on a fieldwork accomplished on a‘Costa Crociere’cruise in the Mediterranean Sea; on the other hand, it is built on the meaning conveyed by different spot advertisements of the Costa website where the company suggest to the future passengers an exclusive experience. We will analyze these ads using a joint anthropology and linguistics approach. In particular, in order to analyze the chosen advertisements, a cognitive linguistics approach will be applied to show how the behavior of the passengers on the cruise is influenced by the linguistic choices of the spot advertisements that prefigure emotions.
Oggi l'industria del turismo propone diverse opportunità di vivere una vacanza in cui il corpo è l'interesse principale e il fulcro dell'esperienza. Ogni forma di turismo mostra un particolare universo di rappresentazione del corpo e un linguaggio emotivo corrispondente. In questo contesto, in cui corpi e spazi sono associati e reciprocamente costruiti come linguaggi simbolici a beneficio della "straordinaria esperienza" del turista, il turismo crocieristico è un caso interessante da analizzare soprattutto perché nelle crociere, le persone usano lo spazio della nave in modi diversi e, allo stesso tempo, seguendo schemi corporei e spaziali generali. Questi usi e schemi riflettono una particolare concezione del corpo, costruita attraverso un'interazione di diversi sistemi di rappresentazione, che trasforma la nave in uno spazio reale per l’aggregazione o la separazione sociale. L'analisi che proponiamo ha un duplice scopo metodologico: è basata, da un lato, su una ricerca sul campo realizzata nella Costa Crociere nel Mar Mediterraneo; d'altro lato, è costruita sul significato trasmesso dai vari spot pubblicitari del sito web Costa in cui la compagnia suggerisce ai futuri passeggeri un'esperienza esclusiva. Si analizzeranno gli spot pubblicitari attraverso un approccio antropologico e linguistico. In particolare, al fine di analizzare gli annunci scelti, verrà applicato un approccio di linguistica cognitiva per mostrare come il comportamento dei passeggeri in crociera sia influenzato dalle scelte linguistiche degli spot pubblicitari che prefigurano le emozioni.
Bodies, emotions and tourism: a study of Costa Cruises commercials
Albano M
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
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2013-01-01
Abstract
Nowadays, tourism industry proposes different opportunities to live a vacation where the body is the main interest and the central focus of experience. Each form of tourism shows a particular universe of representation of the body and acorresponding emotional language. In this context, where bodies and spaces are associated and reciprocally constructed as symbolic languages for the benefit of the tourist’s “extraordinary experience”, cruise tourism is an interesting case in point to analyze above all because on cruises, people use the space of the ship in different ways and, at the same time, following general corporeal and spatial schemes. These uses and schemes reflect a particular conception of the body, built through an interaction of different systems of representation, which transforms the ship into a real and true space for social aggregation or separation.The analysis we propose has a double methodological purpose : it is based, on the one hand, on a fieldwork accomplished on a‘Costa Crociere’cruise in the Mediterranean Sea; on the other hand, it is built on the meaning conveyed by different spot advertisements of the Costa website where the company suggest to the future passengers an exclusive experience. We will analyze these ads using a joint anthropology and linguistics approach. In particular, in order to analyze the chosen advertisements, a cognitive linguistics approach will be applied to show how the behavior of the passengers on the cruise is influenced by the linguistic choices of the spot advertisements that prefigure emotions.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.