The promotion of health and beauty tourism through websites: a linguistic analysis

Authors

  • María Enriqueta Cortés de los Ríos Universidad de Almería
  • Ana Corral Hernández Universidad de Granada

Keywords:

tourism discourse, promotion, linguistic resources, advertising discourse

Abstract

In addition to magnificent beaches, history and culture, tourism websites also offer health and beauty centres for the tourists' wellbeing. This study examines the discourse for the promotion of health and beauty tourism. The purpose of this paper is to offer a general view of this type of discourse focusing on its linguistic resources (lexical-morphological, syntactic and stylistic) in order to better understand its main distinctive features. With this aim in mind we have analyzed websites related to the promotion of health and beauty tourism in Andalusia in English versions. The results of this study can be of relevance both to professional translators and particularly to students and teachers of translation, bearing in mind the emergence of health and beauty tourism as a new type of specialized discourse and the increasing probability that translators will be faced with texts of this nature.

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Author Biographies

María Enriqueta Cortés de los Ríos, Universidad de Almería

Ma Enriqueta Cortés de los Ríos has been dealing with languages for Applied Purposes for the whole of her career, especially in the field of Economic and Business English. She is a lecturer at the Department of Philology, University of Almería (Spain). Her main areas of research interest are cognitive semantics, axiological linguistics, English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and didactics applied to languages for specific purposes. She teaches courses on cognitive semantics,axiology and ESP for postgraduate students. She has presented papers at different national and international conferences (among them, Ibérica, Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, The ESPecialist, LSP Professional 

Communication, Knowledge Management and Cognition, Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, ESP Today). She is a reviewer for Iberica (AELFE) and she has occasionally been a coordinator and reviewer of Cognitive Linguistics and LSP panel of AELFE. She is also a member of a research group: Languages applied to professional and academic contexts, funded by the Regional Government of Andalucia, Granada University (HUM 641). She is an editor of Odisea, Revista de Estudios Ingleses edited by the Department of Philology, University of Almería.

Ana Corral Hernández, Universidad de Granada

Ana Corral Hernández is a lecturer of English as a first and second language and a member of the Department of English and German Studies in the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Granada (Spain). Her specialized field of research was Descriptive Linguistics but later on her career took off on Languages and Didactics applied to Specific Purposes. She is also a member of the research group: Languages applied to professional and academic contexts, funded by the Regional Government of Andalucía, Granada University (HUM 641). It was mainly the development of a Teaching Innovation Project called: Autonomous learning of lexical specialized English for Tourism what meant the starting point of her interest in the field of study of the tourism industry. Other research contributions are related to the disciplines mentioned above: English as well as Spanish for Specific Purposes, namely Español para el Comercio Mundial del siglo XXI, El Inglés del futuro traductor e intérprete, Axiological analysis of print advertisements related to ecological issues in 'The Economist', The local context and its key role in the motivated learning of English for Tourism through Internet. 

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2016-12-25

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Cortés de los Ríos, M. E., & Corral Hernández, A. (2016). The promotion of health and beauty tourism through websites: a linguistic analysis. Revista De Lenguas Para Fines Específicos, 22(2), 62–83. Retrieved from https://ojsspdc.ulpgc.es/ojs/index.php/LFE/article/view/765

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Vol. 22 No. 2 (2016): Revista de lenguas para fines específicos

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