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English Vocabulary for Tourism – A Corpus-Based Approach

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The aim of this article is to determine the most frequent and important English vocabulary used in the area of travel and tourism. This is done on the basis of an analysis of the compiled corpus consisting of the collected tokens from Deutsche Welle video clips by using the software programme called Sketch Engine. In addition, the authors of this article set several useful implications for the teaching of this specific vocabulary, particularly the head nouns.

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  1. Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

    Jaroslav Kacetl & Blanka Klímová

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  1. Jaroslav Kacetl
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  2. Blanka Klímová
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Correspondence to Jaroslav Kacetl .

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

    Henning Christiansen

  2. ENS-Pavillon Jardin, CNRS-Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, France

    Isidora Stojanovic

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Aglantzia, Cyprus

    George A. Papadopoulos

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Kacetl, J., Klímová, B. (2015). English Vocabulary for Tourism – A Corpus-Based Approach. In: Christiansen, H., Stojanovic, I., Papadopoulos, G. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9405. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25591-0_37

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