MEANING CONSTRUCTION OF WORK-BASED LITERARY TOURIST PLACE

JIANG Liao

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ›› 2026, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (2) : 174-180.

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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ›› 2026, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (2) : 174-180. DOI: 10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2026.02.018
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MEANING CONSTRUCTION OF WORK-BASED LITERARY TOURIST PLACE

  • JIANG Liao1,2
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Cross-media transformation brings difficulties to the maintenance and inheritance of the stability of traditional cultural meanings. Firstly, the six landscape of Shuipo Liangshan are refined from the perspective of tourists namely architecture, carvings, performances, waypoints, roads, and symbols. Second, the syntactic structure of the literary tourist site is constructed, and four indicators are identified: importance, comprehensibility, intertextuality, and transformation, and the quantification of the indicators is realised. Third, through the measurement of the four indicators, it is found that: 1) literary tourist sites are important meaning organising units, with buildings, roads and carvings being slightly more important for meaning organisation, and waypoints, signs and performances being weaker; 2) aesthetic comprehension and interpretation reconstruct the symbolic significance of literary tourist sites, with roads being the most comprehensible, followed by buildings, carvings and waypoints, and performances and signs being weaker; 3) aesthetic imagination is involved in the realisation of the mutual verification of meaning between text and society, with architecture, carving and waypoints having stronger intertextuality, and roads, performances and signs being relatively weaker; 4) aesthetic co-phasing maintains the stability of cross-media meaning transformation, with architecture and carving having higher transformations and being able to maintain the stability of meaning better, with waypoints and roads performing passably, and signs and performances having lower transformations.

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literary tourist place / meaning construction / syntactic structure / Shuipo Liangshan

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JIANG Liao. MEANING CONSTRUCTION OF WORK-BASED LITERARY TOURIST PLACE[J]. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2026, 41(2): 174-180 https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2026.02.018

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