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https://doi.org/10.46917/st.16.2.1
Tourist guide as a satirical text type
Irena Medvešek
Sažetak
The text type of tourist guide typically employs a solid concept that describes space in a standardized manner. Generally, it consists of three parts that define its structure: information about the country, practical information, and a description of the destination (Müller, 2012, 27).
As previous research has shown, this concept is flexible, so this paper addresses two tourist guides that have been used as satire: ‘A Humorous Guide to Zagreb’ by Slavko Vereš (1911), where the author mocks his fellow citizens for their tendency to quarrel, and ‘The Tourist Guide to Bol’ (2016) by Ivica Jakšić Čokrić from the Island of Brač, who criticizes mass tourism as a phenomenon and protests against the effects it has on the local community.
By using a classical philological method – the descriptive method, two atypical Croatian guides were analysed with the aim to contribute to the limited research on this textual type. As the research has shown it can successfully be used as a medium for satirizing people, the genre of the tourist guide itself, or the tourism – the phenomenon this textual type originated from.
Ključne riječi
tourist guide; text type; genre; satire; tourism
Hrčak ID:
341869
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Datum izdavanja:
22.12.2025.
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