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Dark Tourism and Dark Heritage: Emergent Themes, Issues and
Consequences (academic)
(January 2014, Philip Stone and Catherine Roberts)
Source: SelectedWorks of Dr.Philip Stone http://works.bepress.com/philip_stone/46
Laura Angelico 4210719
Macrostructure: Introduction
• Summarizing previous research (subject orientation)
• Establishing research field (key characteristics)
• Preparing for present research (extending a finding)
• Introducing present research (purpose)
Body of the text
Paragraphs:•Dark Tourism and the Dark Tourist (Experience)•Dark Tourism and Dark Heritage: Towards a Common Ground•Dark Tourism vs Dark Heritage: A Narrative DissonanceConclusionBibliography and References
Dark Tourism: why murder sites and disaster zones are proving popular (popularized)
Author: Will ColdwellDate: October 2013Source: The Guardian online http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/oct/31/dark-tourism-murder-sites-disaster-zones
Macrostructure• Headline• Subtitle : Chilling and macabre experiences aren’t just for Halloween. There’s
an increasing demand from tourist to visit the locations of some of th world’s most horrific events• Paragraph : five dark tourism sites• Pictures
Microstructure
• Lexical features• Morpho-syntactic features• Textual features• Author visibility• Other features
Lexical features Academic text
• Colloquial language: none
• Binomials Death and the dead, death and mortality,
• Trinomials emergent themes, issues and consequences (title)/homes, haunts, and graves/death,disaster, or the seemingly macabre
• Borrowings: spectrum (Latin), vacuum (Latin), thanatopsis (Greek), continuum (Latin)
• Specialised lexicon: thanatourism, black spots, grief tourism, morbid tourism, deathscapes , supply/demand (economics)
• Acronyms: none
Popularized text
• Colloquial language: selfie, do a thumbs up, behind bars
• Binomials: chilling and macabre, repression and racism,insulted and treated
• Trinomials: none
• Borrowings: macabre (French),dystopia (Greek)
• specialized lexicon: dystopia , demand (economics)
• Acronyms : DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik, p.2), AK47 (Avtomat Kalashikova 1947,), S-21 (Security prison 21)
Lexical features (2)Academic text• Phrasal verbs: none
• Zero derivation: to finesse (also borrowing from French), to theorise
• Compounds: deathscapes, post-visit, present-day, life-changing
• Prefixation: thanatourism , (re)presentation, displaced,recurrent
• Suffixation: demolition,, appropriateness, development
Popularized text• Phrasal verbs : to turn into, to fall under, to
crawl around inside , to walk through, to reflect upon, to learn about
• Zero derivation: to fuel ( noun fuel)
• Compounds: open-mouthed, well-known, handful
• Prefixation: unpleasant, reposting
• Suffixation: attraction, gladness, racism
Morpho-syntactic featuresAcademic text • Nominalisation:, recognisable, development ,
contemplation, presentation, examination
• Pre-modification: contemporary mediating method, often- protracted debates, scholarly attention, slavery-heritage attractions, deep-rooted physiological concerns, potentially deeply subjective axes , tourist motivation research perspective
• Post-modification: sites of dark tourism, intimation of post-modernity, the function of dark or displaced heritage
Popularized text• Nominalisation:commercialisation,
agreement
• Pre-modification: well-known sites, tourist’s inappropriate self portraits
• Post-modification: sites of memorial, experiences of the past
Morpho-syntactic features (2)
Academic Text• Non Finite verbs: contacting,
developing, shielding (and many others)• Passive: Can be found, new
locations are brought into…,(…) investments that are perceived to have been made by…,
Popularized text• Non Finite verbs: spending,
containing, visiting (majority of finite verbs)• Passive: bodies were buried,
visitors…are invited, (…)were murdered , Nelson Mandela was imprisoned
Textual featuresAcademic text
• Linkers : However, Thus, Hence, therefore etc. Cohesion of the text. Hypotaxis• Anaphoric reference:
consequently• Cataphoric reference :
subsequently• Repetitions : death, dark
tourism
Popularized text
• Linkers: As well as, recently. Parataxis and simple sentences are preferred. • Anaphoric reference: none• Cataphoric reference: none• Repetitions: people , notorious
Author visibilityAcademic text• Hedges: may, possibility, might, perhaps, can,
there is an obligation to, of course, unsurprisingly
• Code glosses: that is, for example
• Depersonalization :There have been tendencies…, research, there is an obligation to…, studies
Ex: Heritage studies increasingly privileged the role of memory in identifying what is important in society
Studies conducted by the author himself (Stone) are cited in third person
ex: Stone (2006) offered a dark tourism classification or spectrum that outlined a quantitative set of site-related factors…
Popularized text
• Hedges: none
• Code glosses: such as• De-personalization :there are currently
plans
Author visibility(2)Academic text• Irony: none
• Exclusive we: We encounter situations where memory and its translation- or put another way, heritage and tourism- becomes discordant, and we find reflection of those situations in developing conceptual discourse relating to difficult, displaced or dissonant heritage.
• Inclusive we: (…)the societal frameworks in which we reside
Popularised textIrony: the execution chamber of a former state prison don’t scream «wish you were here»
Chilling and macabre experiences aren’t just for Halloween
May not be everyone’s idea of fun
•Exclusive we: none
•Inclusive we: none
Author visibility (3)
Academic text• Connotative language: none
• Deictics: these, here
• Evidentials: Howarth goes on to argue that «it may be that in their quest to uncover hidden death…» ( many examples in the text)
Popularized text• Connotative language (subjectivity)
Unpleasant experiences of the past, reposting tourists’ inappropriate self portraits, the uncomfortable nature of dark tourism, brutally murdered
• Deictics: here
• Evidentials : "I think most people are going to these places with a purity of curiosity "", says Feifer.
"Dark tourism doesn’t need dark tourists"", says Stone.
Other features (academic text)
• Definitions of specific terms are not given because of the specialised context.
Exception : to remind the definition, only when the concept is presented for the first time
Ex: reformulation Dark tourism, that is travel to sites associated with death, disaster or
the seemingly macabre
Other features (popularized text)
• General and simple definitions : self portraits, or selfiesAK47, the weapon of the choice for the Viet Cong army
• Figures are not precise: approximately one million Jews, hundreds of…,• The article is about a negative matter: newsworthy