桂林旅游资料英语可比语料库的构建与应用-外国语言学及应用语言学专业论文.docxVIP

Abstract Tourism has become one of the most dynamic and fastest developing industries in the world. The World Tourism Organization has made a prediction that tourism is gradually becoming the most promising industry on the globe. Thanks to tourism industry, the distance between people of different races, colours, religions and social status can be bridged psychologically and culturally. Tourism industry accelerates economic development, promotes understanding and communication between countries. China is one of the few countries possessing of vast territory on which there are various tourist resources, centuries-old historic resorts, marvelous civilization, splendid natural landscape integrating perfectly into multi-ethnic culture. All of these are extremely valuable asset for China to develop its tourism industry. Guilin is located in the South of China, which has always been one of the most popular tourist destinations of mainland tours in China. Famous for “green hills, clear water, fantastic caves and spectacular rocks”, Guilin also has great potential to develop specialized tourism which focuses on ethnic culture and scenery adventure, and so on. In order to introduce the beauty of Guilin to the world, Guilin tourist materials are expected to be translated into English. The materials include all written texts introducing Guilin’s tourist resources, tourist attractions, local custom and culture to visitors. These materials share a common purpose: to attract more potential visitors to Guilin. For years, the local government and the National Tourism Bureau have invested huge human and material resources in coming out with all sorts of translated publications to publicize Guilin. Nevertheless, the quality of these publications is not satisfactory. This research aims to learn expression which reflects the nature of the texts even more from the original English tourist materials of Guilin, and to explore the promoting role of corresponding corpora to the studies of t