The English of Tourism

Name: The English of Tourism
Brand: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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The English of Tourism is a collection of essays on the English specific to the Tourism Industry. The approach is a linguistic one: the different aspects of the English used in the field of tourism (tourism industry, types of tourism, travel agencies, Internet sites of travel agencies, eco-tourism, travel) and in tourism-related fields (accommodation, advertising, entertainment, food services, hospitality, transportation) are analysed from a morphological (combination, derivation), syntactical (nominal phrases, verbal phrases), lexical and lexicographical, semantic (homonymy, semantic fields, synonymy, terminology), pragmatic (academic discourse, idiom, metaphor), etymological (etymon, Latin heritage), and contrastive (CroatianRomanian, EnglishCroatian, EnglishRomanian, FrenchEnglish, RomanianEnglish) points of view.This book will appeal to people employed in industries including hotels, transportation, events, food and beverage, parks and recreation, as well as to professors, researchers, students, and translators from Croatian-, English-, French-, and Romanian-speaking countries, active in their own countries or abroad.The types of academic readership it will appeal to include: academic teaching staff, researchers and students in the field of tourism, of tourism-related fields accommodation, advertising, entertainment, food services, hospitality, and transportation and of languages. See more

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Dimensions: 148 x 212mm
Publication Date: 28 Sep 2012
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781443841283

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Georgeta Ra holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University in Bucharest Romania. She is a qualified EFL teacher and has been teaching languages for over 36 years. She co-authored Compendium of Forage Technical Terms in English French and Romanian (2012); edited Language Education Today: Between Theory and Practice (2009) Teaching Foreign Languages: Languages for Special Purposes (2010) and Academic Days of Timioara: Language Education Today (2011); and co-edited Social Sciences Today: Between Theory and Practice (2010) Academic Days of Timioara: Social Sciences Today (2011) and Agricultural English (2012).Ioan Petroman is a PhD Professor at the Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Timioara Romania. He holds a PhD in Animal Husbandry from the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Bucharest Romania and a PhD in Management from the University of the West in Timioara. He authored Introduction to Tourism (2005); and co-authored Introduction to Cultural Tourism (2005 2006) Food Services (2006 2008) and Managing Cultural Tourism in the Timi County (Romania).Cornelia Petroman is a Professor at the Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Timioara Romania. She holds a PhD from the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Bucharest Romania. She specialises in food processing and food service. She authored Processing Agricultural Produce (1999) and Processing Agricultural Raw Materials (2010); and co-authored Pork Production and Processing (1999) and Food Services (2006 2008). She has published over 100 papers in the fields of hospitality and food service.