Language, affect, and carnivalesque: Tourism encounters and transgressive narratives on a party island

Party island tourism is construed as a type of tourism that heavily relies on sensory and intimate encounters that evince structures of inequality. In this paper, I investigate how the notion of the party influences the negotiation of sociolinguistic relations on party islands. By employing a lingui...

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spelling oai:animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph:faculty_research-35202023-10-19T06:08:50Z Language, affect, and carnivalesque: Tourism encounters and transgressive narratives on a party island Vitorio, Raymund Victor M. Party island tourism is construed as a type of tourism that heavily relies on sensory and intimate encounters that evince structures of inequality. In this paper, I investigate how the notion of the party influences the negotiation of sociolinguistic relations on party islands. By employing a linguistic ethnographic approach, this paper attempts to examine the affective dimensions of the narratives of “tourism frontliners” about their tourism encounters in Boracay from the perspective of the party. The party dynamics in Boracay can be described as carnivalesque, which shows “ … life turned inside out … the reverse side of the world” (Bakhtin, Mikhail. 1984. Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics. Translated and edited by Caryl Emerson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 122). I argue that the coalescence of different participants, emotions, and linguistic practices in the Boracay party enables tourism frontliners to subvert various forms of inequality (e.g. occupational norms, precarity, and discrimination) through their accounts of getting even and getting by. This results in a suspension of reality–a space where transgressive behavior can potentially disrupt or reconfigure unequal sociolinguistic relations. This paper argues that while carnivalesque behaviors are inherently suspensions of reality, their iterability can lead to the establishment of sustainable transgressive spaces. © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. 2020-01-01T08:00:00Z text text/html https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/2521 info:doi/10.1080/10350330.2020.1810548 Faculty Research Work Animo Repository Tourism--Philippines--Boracay Island Tour guides (Persons)--Philippines--Boracay Island--Psychology Tourism—Employees--Psychology Language and Literacy Education
institution De La Salle University
building De La Salle University Library
continent Asia
country Philippines
Philippines
content_provider De La Salle University Library
collection DLSU Institutional Repository
topic Tourism--Philippines--Boracay Island
Tour guides (Persons)--Philippines--Boracay Island--Psychology
Tourism—Employees--Psychology
Language and Literacy Education
spellingShingle Tourism--Philippines--Boracay Island
Tour guides (Persons)--Philippines--Boracay Island--Psychology
Tourism—Employees--Psychology
Language and Literacy Education
Vitorio, Raymund Victor M.
Language, affect, and carnivalesque: Tourism encounters and transgressive narratives on a party island
description Party island tourism is construed as a type of tourism that heavily relies on sensory and intimate encounters that evince structures of inequality. In this paper, I investigate how the notion of the party influences the negotiation of sociolinguistic relations on party islands. By employing a linguistic ethnographic approach, this paper attempts to examine the affective dimensions of the narratives of “tourism frontliners” about their tourism encounters in Boracay from the perspective of the party. The party dynamics in Boracay can be described as carnivalesque, which shows “ … life turned inside out … the reverse side of the world” (Bakhtin, Mikhail. 1984. Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics. Translated and edited by Caryl Emerson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 122). I argue that the coalescence of different participants, emotions, and linguistic practices in the Boracay party enables tourism frontliners to subvert various forms of inequality (e.g. occupational norms, precarity, and discrimination) through their accounts of getting even and getting by. This results in a suspension of reality–a space where transgressive behavior can potentially disrupt or reconfigure unequal sociolinguistic relations. This paper argues that while carnivalesque behaviors are inherently suspensions of reality, their iterability can lead to the establishment of sustainable transgressive spaces. © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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author Vitorio, Raymund Victor M.
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title Language, affect, and carnivalesque: Tourism encounters and transgressive narratives on a party island
title_short Language, affect, and carnivalesque: Tourism encounters and transgressive narratives on a party island
title_full Language, affect, and carnivalesque: Tourism encounters and transgressive narratives on a party island
title_fullStr Language, affect, and carnivalesque: Tourism encounters and transgressive narratives on a party island
title_full_unstemmed Language, affect, and carnivalesque: Tourism encounters and transgressive narratives on a party island
title_sort language, affect, and carnivalesque: tourism encounters and transgressive narratives on a party island
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