Michelle Metro-Roland
Biographic Data
| ID | 3563972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Metro-Roland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Metro-Roland |
| SIGNATURE | METRO-ROLAND M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
"The tourist semiosis of lake landscapes through aesthetics and "perfomativities
We used Semiotics to more closely examine visual representations of lake landscapes and corporeal "performativities", specifically employing type/token distinction, a remarkable feature of the sign model by Charles Sanders Peirce (1839 -1914). Thus, the core goal was to address the following question from a southern empirical semiotic lab, Mirim Lagoon (Brazil/Uruguay): How do tourists and leisure -seekers encounter lake landscapes and make sense…
The linguistic landscapes of nature trails
Physical landscapes are often designated and given meaning through linguistic landscapes, markers, street signs and placards. While these are ubiquitous in urban areas, within the natural environment, linguistic landscapes serve to designate parts of nature, give significance, and educate. The dynamic, changeable character of nature means there is not always congruence between the linguistic landscapes and the elements of nature these designate. …
Touring as a Peircean habit
Molten salts of inorganic nature are excellent reaction media for various research and industrial uses. Their applications in energy technologies are also wide, including, but not limited to, thermal, nuclear, and electrochemical processes and their combinations. This review aims to capture and analyze selected innovations and developments in recent past, with a specific focus on electrochemical energy storage (EES)
Goulash nationalism
This paper explores the relationship between food, geography and national culture. Food is sustenance and ceremony; it is also malleable, transformable and indelibly linked with global movements. Certain foods, regardless of their origins, become intimately linked with particular cultures and begin to function almost metonymically, in some cases becoming the dominant thing which is known about the culture. This paper presents one of the most icon…
Background to the fore
A needle in a hay stack
Authenticity within heritage tourism continues to be a salient issue, especially in the context of small-scale rural sites that seek to preserve and narrate local history. Grounded in the literature on cultural tourism and authenticity, this paper presents a qualitative case study of the Pioneer Village at the John Hay Center in Salem, Indiana, based upon participant observation, informal interviews and content analysis. Attention is paid to the …
Interpreting Meaning
In the background of Dean MacCannell's work on tourists lay the semiotic theory of the American philosopher Charles S. Peirce. Peirce's writings are voluminous, at times contradictory and, yet, his theory of semiotics is worth examining for what it can bring to the theorizing of tourism. This paper offers an introduction to Peirce's theory, the essential notion of how signs function, the three parts that constitute a sign – the object, representa…
Commentary
Urry's classic treatise The Tourist Gaze has sparked more than a decade of development of tourism theory. While his research raises important issues about the nature of tourism and the social relations of tourism, the focus here is on the implications of his research for issues of meaning. It is argued that use of landscape literature in geography and, particularly, its focus on 'reading the landscape' substantially clarifies issues of the meanin…
Interpreting Meaning
In the background of Dean MacCannell's work on tourists lay the semiotic theory of the American philosopher Charles S. Peirce. Peirce's writings are voluminous, at times contradictory and, yet, his theory of semiotics is worth examining for what it can bring to the theorizing of tourism. This paper offers an introduction to Peirce's theory, the essential notion of how signs function, the three parts that constitute a sign – the object, representa…
Commentary
Urry's classic treatise The Tourist Gaze has sparked more than a decade of development of tourism theory. While his research raises important issues about the nature of tourism and the social relations of tourism, the focus here is on the implications of his research for issues of meaning. It is argued that use of landscape literature in geography and, particularly, its focus on 'reading the landscape' substantially clarifies issues of the meanin…
Background to the fore
Goulash nationalism
This paper explores the relationship between food, geography and national culture. Food is sustenance and ceremony; it is also malleable, transformable and indelibly linked with global movements. Certain foods, regardless of their origins, become intimately linked with particular cultures and begin to function almost metonymically, in some cases becoming the dominant thing which is known about the culture. This paper presents one of the most icon…
A needle in a hay stack
Authenticity within heritage tourism continues to be a salient issue, especially in the context of small-scale rural sites that seek to preserve and narrate local history. Grounded in the literature on cultural tourism and authenticity, this paper presents a qualitative case study of the Pioneer Village at the John Hay Center in Salem, Indiana, based upon participant observation, informal interviews and content analysis. Attention is paid to the …
The linguistic landscapes of nature trails
Physical landscapes are often designated and given meaning through linguistic landscapes, markers, street signs and placards. While these are ubiquitous in urban areas, within the natural environment, linguistic landscapes serve to designate parts of nature, give significance, and educate. The dynamic, changeable character of nature means there is not always congruence between the linguistic landscapes and the elements of nature these designate. …
Commentary
Urry's classic treatise The Tourist Gaze has sparked more than a decade of development of tourism theory. While his research raises important issues about the nature of tourism and the social relations of tourism, the focus here is on the implications of his research for issues of meaning. It is argued that use of landscape literature in geography and, particularly, its focus on 'reading the landscape' substantially clarifies issues of the meanin…
A needle in a hay stack
Authenticity within heritage tourism continues to be a salient issue, especially in the context of small-scale rural sites that seek to preserve and narrate local history. Grounded in the literature on cultural tourism and authenticity, this paper presents a qualitative case study of the Pioneer Village at the John Hay Center in Salem, Indiana, based upon participant observation, informal interviews and content analysis. Attention is paid to the …
Interpreting Meaning
In the background of Dean MacCannell's work on tourists lay the semiotic theory of the American philosopher Charles S. Peirce. Peirce's writings are voluminous, at times contradictory and, yet, his theory of semiotics is worth examining for what it can bring to the theorizing of tourism. This paper offers an introduction to Peirce's theory, the essential notion of how signs function, the three parts that constitute a sign – the object, representa…
Background to the fore
Goulash nationalism
This paper explores the relationship between food, geography and national culture. Food is sustenance and ceremony; it is also malleable, transformable and indelibly linked with global movements. Certain foods, regardless of their origins, become intimately linked with particular cultures and begin to function almost metonymically, in some cases becoming the dominant thing which is known about the culture. This paper presents one of the most icon…
Touring as a Peircean habit
Molten salts of inorganic nature are excellent reaction media for various research and industrial uses. Their applications in energy technologies are also wide, including, but not limited to, thermal, nuclear, and electrochemical processes and their combinations. This review aims to capture and analyze selected innovations and developments in recent past, with a specific focus on electrochemical energy storage (EES)
The linguistic landscapes of nature trails
Physical landscapes are often designated and given meaning through linguistic landscapes, markers, street signs and placards. While these are ubiquitous in urban areas, within the natural environment, linguistic landscapes serve to designate parts of nature, give significance, and educate. The dynamic, changeable character of nature means there is not always congruence between the linguistic landscapes and the elements of nature these designate. …
"The tourist semiosis of lake landscapes through aesthetics and "perfomativities
We used Semiotics to more closely examine visual representations of lake landscapes and corporeal "performativities", specifically employing type/token distinction, a remarkable feature of the sign model by Charles Sanders Peirce (1839 -1914). Thus, the core goal was to address the following question from a southern empirical semiotic lab, Mirim Lagoon (Brazil/Uruguay): How do tourists and leisure -seekers encounter lake landscapes and make sense…
Sociology (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Tourism (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)