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Tour Guides’ Embodied Conduct for Preparing Visitors for Extended Informings of Sites of Interest: The Nexis of Language and Tourism (98381)
Session Chair: David Aline
Sunday, 4 January 2026 15:25
Session: Session 4 (Parallel)
Room: Hawaii Convention Center: Room 303A
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
This study elucidates the steps that tour guides take to initiate and launch extended informing sequences during guided tours in which English is used as a common language. We focus on how our findings can be utilized by teachers and learners in foreign language classrooms that prepare students for careers in tourism. Analyzed through the research method of conversation analysis were the interactional practices tour guides deploy to prepare visitors for extended-telling sequences through which they expatiate on focal objects and sites of interest. Numerous studies examine extended informing sequences in tours provided in a first language (De Stefani & Mondada, 2014), but few explore these practices in second language tours (Hosoda & Aline, 2021; 2024). Analysis of 900 minutes of video-recorded and transcribed data from tours in Japan, Belgium, South Korea, France, Thailand, and Cambodia uncovered the embodied practices guides utilize to initiate and launch informing sequences. Revealed were the deictic phrases guides commonly use to launch explanation sequences: “This is ~,” “That is ~” and “Here is ~”. Analysis highlights tour guides’ embodied conduct preliminary to the actual launching of explanation sequences. Specifically, guides paid attention to visitor movement and orientation: when visitors were not physically ready to attend to explanations, guides utilized pre-telling formats and created some mystery until visitors were ready to apply their attention. This study’s findings can be applied to help prepare those who will lead tours conducted in a second language to develop leadership skills in presenting their culture to foreign visitors.
Authors:
Yuri Hosoda, Kanagawa University, Japan
David Aline, Kanagawa University, Japan
About the Presenter(s)
Yuri Hosoda is Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities at Kanagawa University, Yokohama.
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