Cultural localisation as a strategy to preserve the persuasive function in the translation of tourism websites from French into English

Tourist promotional texts function like advertising texts in that they aim to “persuade, lure, woo, and seduce” (Dann 1996). In the context of global marketing, tourists can be considered consumers who seek to escape from ordinary life carrying their culturally embedded mindsets with them. Although...

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Main Author: Cowan, Sally Elizabeth
Format: Article
Published: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2019
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