Записки з романо-германської філології (Apr 2015)
Functioning of the English tourism terminology in the guides to Ukraine
Abstract
The article outlines main aspects of study of English tourism terminology, in particular, functional. General specific features of English guides and peculiarities of tourism terms functioning in them have been reviewed in the article. Attempted analysis of theoretical and practical aspects of investigating terminology in the works of contemporary scientists made it possible for us to identify a general tendency to consider terminological vocabulary from the points of view of semantics, structure, word building and function. The aim of the present article is to discuss functioning of English language tourist terminology in guides to Ukraine. Our sample was taken from the following on-line tourist guides: World Travel Guide and Travel to Ukraine (the Official Travel Website and Guide to Ukraine). A tourist guide is a printed book, online or audio-visual directory about a certain country, city, museum, tourist site. As a rule guides contain information about accommodation, food, transport, entertainment. It is necessary to mention that the structure of tourist guides under investigation is identical. They contain general information about Ukraine – short notes on history, culture, climate and geography, national holidays and more specific information about the rules of entry, medical assistance, currency, options on accommodation and travelling inside the country, national cuisine, and entertainment as well. Besides this tourist guides provide videos and photos illustrating information cited and place advertisings of hotels, restaurants, night clubs, and tourist agencies. Our investigation of the general corpus of English language tourist terminology made it possible to identify several thematic groups, the main of which are: types of tourism (e.g., domestic tourism, cycle touring), accommodation (with subgroups: types of hotels, types of rooms), transport (air plane, car, railway etc.), food and drink (types of restaurants, meals, dishes), activities, travel documents. Frequency of usage of certain thematic groups of terms under consideration is motivated first of all by social and cultural peculiarities of the country. Promising is the investigation of advertising texts placed within online tourist guides.
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