L’altérité dans les guides touristiques consacrés à l’insularité

Abstract

In order to understand the social representation of otherness within tourist guides dedicated to island destinations with a colonial history, we will conduct a comparative analysis of a corpus of seven guides published between 2018 and 2021: Réunion, Mayotte, Mauritius/Rodrigues, Sey helles, Maldives, Guadeloupe, and Martinique. Special attention will be given to the introductions of these publications. How is this complex alterity linguistically represented or discursively constructed within these works? What role do the island populations and local languages play in the tourist promotion of these destinations? How are discourses on "the Other" and the "Same" articulated within tourist discourses?Grounded in a phenomenological approach and following the traditional methodology of discursive analysis, this article provides an overview of the issue of otherness in tourist discourses related to insularity.

Keywords

• Otherness
• discourse analysis
• tourist imaginaries
• representations
• sociolinguistics.