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1、论旅游英语的特征英语论文On Distinctive Features of Tourism English论旅游英语的特征Abstract With the rapid development of Chinese tourism industry, more and more foreign tourists have come to China. Although not all foreign tourists are from English-speaking countries, English, as a common language in todays world, has

2、become the most important medium of communication when international tourist activities are involved. As a result, tourism English appears as ESP English, and becomes popular and necessary in Chinese tourism. Many Chinese students majoring in tourism learn tourism English as a course. A large number

3、 of employees in tourism industry start to use English in their work. In this case, this essay firstly aims at exposing the language functions of tourism English, and analyzes its distinctive features in terms of linguistics and culture, which identifies tourism English as a special branch of Englis

4、h. The detailed study on tourism English itself will be helpful for the Chinese students of tourism English and the staff in the field to use it well and deal with tourism English translation.Key Words: Tourism English; Function; Features; Culture摘要随着中国旅游业的迅速发展，越来越多的外国游客来到中国旅游观光。虽然这些外国游客并不是全部来自英语国家，

5、但是作为当今世界通用语，英语成为国际旅游活动中一个最重要的交流工具和媒介。因此，旅游英语这个特殊的英语文体开始在中国旅游行业中流行，并成为旅游业发展必不可少的因素之一。许多旅游英语专业的学生在学习旅游英语，一大部分旅游从业者开始学习使用英语。对此，本文首先通过对旅游英语本身的研究，揭示了旅游英语的语言功能，并且从语言学和文化的角度，分析了旅游英语的特点，正是这些特点使得旅游英语成为一种独特的英语文体。对于旅游英语本身的详细研究不仅可以帮助旅游从业人员更好的了解和使用旅游英语，并且也为旅游英语翻译打下良好的基础。关键词: 旅游英语；语言功能；语言特点；文化ContentsIntroduction

6、5. The Scope of the Use of Tourism English.6A. Tourism English Used in Transportation.6B. Tourism English Used in Accommodation7. The Features of Language Functions of Tourism English.8A. Informative Function.8B. The Directive Function.9C. The Evocative Function.9.The Linguistic Features of Tourism

7、English.10A. Lexical Feature101. The Technical Terms102. The Proper Names113. Words and Idioms from Other Languages.12B. Grammatical Feature.121. The Sentence Structure122. The Tenses133. The Voices144. The Moods.15C. Courtesy Feature of Tourism English.15D. Stylistic Feature of Tourism English.16E.

8、 Culture Feature of Tourism English.17Conclusion.19Acknowledgements.20IntroductionTourism has received an international reputation as a never-declining industry in the history of world economy. In China, tourism has a history of almost 55 years since the first travel agency founded in November 1949.

9、 But during the following 30 years, Chinese tourism was advancing slowly due to political reasons. According to the data reported by National Tourism Administration Bureau of China, only 1.809 million people including 0.23 million foreigners visited China in 1978. However, in 1998, China received 63

10、.4784 million international visitors, including 7.1077 million foreign tourists, which is 35 times that in 1978.China has become one of the most popular tourist destinations and one of the leading countries of world tourism industry. Due to the development of tourism in China, tourism English become

11、s more and more important nowadays in China. As a result, tourism English appears as a term in many researches and course books with the meaning of English language that is used for tourism. Since China has been recognized as an approved destination by many countries officially, more and more foreig

12、n tourists have been flowing into China for a visit, and tourism English has become necessary and booming as a result，from airport to hotel and restaurant, from travel to tourist spot. English is used whenever a foreign tourist is received. We suppose that Chinas tourism would not have advanced smoo

13、thly without the development of tourism English.Therefore, some researches about tourism English should be done. But in the authors eyes, distinctive features of tourism English are to be explored firstly. Only if some distinctive features of tourism English are made clear, some work on translation

14、or practice about tourism English should be done in order to push forward the Chinese tourism. Thats why the author of the paper chooses “On Distinctive features of tourism English” as its title.Before this paper was started, lots of materials were checked and read. Findings were made that there hav

15、e been a few researches about the distinctive features of tourism English from the point of linguistics. Therefore, more researches should still be done on the distinctive features of tourism English from the point of linguistics so that the researches could promote the development of tourism Englis

16、h and also could push forward the development of tourism, economy and the culture of China. That is the purpose of this paper. The topic will be analyzed from three aspects as follows-the scope of the use of tourism English, the features of language function of tourism English, and the linguistic fe

17、atures of tourism English. The author will give some examples to explain it in the following. The Scope of the Use of Tourism EnglishTourism English, as it is so called, is the English language used for tourism and is a particular variety of English in terms of linguistics. It appears with the devel

18、opment of tourism industry, especially international tourism. When people make a visit to some place, they will be provided with all kinds of services needed during the tour.According to Oxford Advanced Learners English-Chinese Dictionary, tourism is “the business activity connected with providing a

19、ccommodation, services and entertainment for people who are visiting a place for pleasure.” The services refer to transportation service, hotel service and tourist spot services. Therefore, tourism English is widely used in transportation (including airplane, train and bus), hotel (including restaur

20、ant) and tourist spot, spoken and written in forms.A. Tourism English Used in Transportation“Tourism is the outcome of the travel and stay of people, and, as we have seen, the development of transport, both private and public, has had a major impact on the growth and direction of tourism development

21、. The provision of adequate safe, comfortable, fast, convenient and cheap public transport is a prerequisite for mass market tourism.” This sentence shows the deeply relationship between tourism and transportation.The development of air transport in the second half of the 20th century contributed to

22、 the growth of tourism. Air travel, in particular, over the past 30 years has made medium-and long-range destinations accessible on both these counts. In doing so, it has substantially contributed to the phenomenon of mass-market international tourism. Therefore, tourism English has become an import

23、ant tool in the mass-market international tourism.Considering their long lead over other carrier in providing public service transports, it may be regarded surprising that the railway in Britain took so long to adapt to the needs of mass-market tourism in the late 20th century. Certainly the railway

24、s played a major role in the provision of tourist transport throughout the first half of the last century. In the public, such as airport, plant ships or railways and so on, people have to communicate with each other and they have to serve their guests. So we need tourism English. No matter who you

25、are or where you are from, you can share the comfortable service during the tour. Thats tourism English used in the transportation.B. Tourism English Used in AccommodationAccommodation is a crucial part in tourism. It includes the following places: hotels licensed hotel unlicensed, motels, private h

26、otels, guesthouses and farmhouses. Here, we only analyze hotels which can accept foreigners. There are many departments in the hotel, and also have the special English to translate these departments, such as board of directors, general manager, human resources directors, security directors, Food & B

27、everage Director, Director of marketing and sales and so on. If only we serve foreigners, each department may use tourism English. The following dialog is tourism English used in a hotel.Receptionist: Yes, sir, this is the Front Office of wan you conifer hotel, can I help you?Guest: Im calling from

28、New York. Id like to book one room in your hotel.Receptionist: What kind of room would you like? We have all kinds of rooms as single rooms, double rooms, suites and deluxe suites and presidential suites.Guest: A deluxe suite, please.Receptionist: Can you tell me your name, please?Guest: Jackson. J-

29、A-C-K-S-O-NReceptionist: Thank you, and your arrival and departure date?Guest: June 1 to 6Receptionist: OK, Mr. Jackson. A deluxe suite, from June 1 to 6. Is that right?Guest: Yes, excellent.Receptionist: All right, we are looking forward to seeing you here on June 1, Goodbye.Guest: Thank you, Goodb

30、ye. The Features of Language Functions of Tourism EnglishAs Professor Hu Zhuangling of Beijing University mentioned in his book, “Linguistics: A Course Book”, “language has to serve various purposes as there are different types of them for using it”. As a particular variety of English language, tourism English has its own language functions, which are mainly informative, directive and evocative functions.A. Informative FunctionAccording to the book of