Browsing by Author "Etelävuori, Vilma"

This thesis explores the linguistic and rhetorical features of slow travel blog posts as well as their rhetorical structure. This study falls into the genre analytical framework and move structure analysis (Swales, 1990). Therefore, the aim is to discover the prominent linguistic features and moves in the slow travel blog posts and how these are connected. The data of the analysis includes five blog posts from five different blogs that focus on the concept of slow travel. All of these blog posts are freely available on the Internet and have been published during the year 2023. The analysis shows that multiple linguistic and rhetorical features are utilized in the slow travel blog posts and the most prominent ones are the use of personal pronouns, especially the singular pronouns you and I, which are used to create authenticity and to engage the reader. Other common linguistic features are subject omission, lists, imperatives and questions. Additionally, the move structure of the slow travel blog posts follows Pascual’s (2018) framework for travel blog posts which consists of four moves which are situational move, descriptive move, closure move and invitation move. These linguistic features and the move structure of the slow travel blog posts resemble the values of slow travel as they are used to promote slowness, the travel experience and environmental consciousness.