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 (Croatian-Romanian, English-Croatian, English-Romanian, French-English, Romanian-English) 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.
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Sprache
Verlagsort
Newcastle upon Tyne
Großbritannien
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Editions-Typ
Produkt-Hinweis
Maße
Höhe: 212 mm
Breite: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4438-4128-3 (9781443841283)
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Georgeta Rata 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 Timisoara: Language Education Today (2011); and co-edited Social Sciences Today: Between Theory and Practice (2010), Academic Days of Timisoara: 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 Timisoara, 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 Timisoara. 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 Timis County (Romania).Cornelia Petroman is a Professor at the Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Timisoara, 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.
