The article explores tourism texts about the city of Padua (Italy) produced by internationally renowned publishing houses, local tourist boards, EFL learners and novice native writers. Four specially compiled corpora representing these types of writing provide the linguistic material for the study of various aspects of the use of adjectives in these texts: the distribution of tokens and types of adjectives across the corpora, creative and clichéd uses, the syntactic patterns in which they occur, and their semantic and pragmatic features. The results reveal that the international publishing houses employ the highest percentages of types and low-frequency adjectives as well as of adjectives with an unfavourable connotation. They also bring to light some erroneous uses in the writing of all the types of writers but the international ones. The article discusses these and other findings and their implications for teaching English for tourism.
Ways of Representing and Promoting Padua: Professional, Novice and (Non-)Native Voices
CASTELLO, ERIK
2017
Abstract
The article explores tourism texts about the city of Padua (Italy) produced by internationally renowned publishing houses, local tourist boards, EFL learners and novice native writers. Four specially compiled corpora representing these types of writing provide the linguistic material for the study of various aspects of the use of adjectives in these texts: the distribution of tokens and types of adjectives across the corpora, creative and clichéd uses, the syntactic patterns in which they occur, and their semantic and pragmatic features. The results reveal that the international publishing houses employ the highest percentages of types and low-frequency adjectives as well as of adjectives with an unfavourable connotation. They also bring to light some erroneous uses in the writing of all the types of writers but the international ones. The article discusses these and other findings and their implications for teaching English for tourism.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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