Article published In: Challenges and solutions in translation: Insights into training, ELF, and accessibility
Guest-edited by Rossella Latorraca and Jacqueline Aiello
[Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 9:1] 2023
► pp. 41–70
Translation and EIL in accessible tourism
Potentials and limits
Published online: 17 March 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/ttmc.00101.gan
https://doi.org/10.1075/ttmc.00101.gan
Abstract
This paper aims at exploring the potentials and limits of translation and English as International Language as tools of inclusion in accessible tourism. Accessible tourism can be defined as a form of tourism that enables people with access requirements, including mobility, vision, hearing and cognitive dimensions of access, to function independently and with equity and dignity through the delivery of universally designed tourism products, services and environments. This research will try to identify the main linguistic, translational and multimodal features characterising a series of accessible tourism texts in English and Italian, in order to show how translation and English as International Language may increase, or sometimes hinder, the actual level of accessibility and promotional aims of these texts, raise awareness on disability issues and, mostly, contribute effectively to the development of a more inclusive and egalitarian society.
Keywords: accessible tourism, translation, EIL, inclusion
Article outline
- 1.Accessible tourism: Key definitions and socio-economic data
- 2.The promotion of accessible tourism: Linguistic features, structural layout and textual contents
- 3.Analysis
- 3.1The accessibility page of the British Museum website
- 3.2The Airport4All app
- 4.Conclusions
- Notes
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