Neologisms in the Language of Tourism as Indicators of Innovativeness in Tourism

Tina Orel Frank
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Tina Orel Frank: University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica

Academica Turistica - Tourism and Innovation Journal, 2014, vol. 7, issue 2, 69-76

Abstract: This paper is meant to highlight the often neglected connection between language and tourism. Languages reflect realities and, as such, they can be considered one of the strongest tools and an important indicator of human development and hence the development of tourism. In a journal dealing with innovations in tourism, we endeavour to achieve two objectives: firstly, to introduce lexical and terminological neologisms (roughly defined as new expressions) connected with tourism: these language structures obviously indicate paths of tourism development; and secondly, to alert the actors in tourism of new terminology. An era of robust globalization has put focus on researching the English language. The theoretical part of the paper sheds light on definitions of neologisms and the methods of their extraction, as well as touching upon the specifics of the language of tourism, while the practical section offers a selection of neologisms showing current path of tourism development. A semi-automatic method of neologism extraction was used to complete the list from different resources chosen according to the definitions of neologisms and characteristics of the language of tourism. This paper also attempts to highlight currently discussed sub-disciplines of tourism. For this purpose, we have additionally investigated the abstracts of one of the leading tourism journals, Annals of Tourism Research, and a journal dealing with innovations in tourism, Academica Turistica, Tourism Innovation Journal.

Keywords: language of tourism; tourism innovations; neologisms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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