Specialized Discourse Features in the English Tourist Texts

Abstract

Active development of transport, trade, economic and other types of international contacts caused tourism growth. Tourism, or the travel industry as such, has its specific language and specific features. Many linguistic studies today analyze various types of institutional discourse, which have a clearly oriented pragmatic attitude. The modern English-language travel texts provide enough material to study travel discourse as a specialized discourse and talk about its lexical, syntactic features along with the functions of this discourse.The study is based on the material of modern English-language travel texts that function in specific extralinguistic conditions (in travel brochures, guidebooks, magazines, newspapers, and online publications) and that have their target audience. The choice of printed travel guides and brochures as research material is explained by their importance in the travel industry and popularity of use.