Building a corpus of tourism scientific texts: foundations, methodology and potentialities

DOI: https://doi.org/10.55028/at.v7i2.18347
Keywords: Parallel corpus, Comparable corpus, Tourism, Terminology, Scientific writing

Abstract

The aim of this work is to present the theoretical foundations and methodology used to build a Portuguese-English parallel (abstracts/translations) and comparable corpus (abstracts) of scientific abstracts in Tourism (named TEXTur), aimed at scientific writing practice, teaching and research, highlighting its applications and potentialities. Three highly ranked Brazilian tourism journals were selected in order to extract abstracts published in Brazilian Portuguese and their translations into English, and three highly ranked international journals of tourism were selected in order to extract abstracts published in English. Texts collected were divided into sentences and annotated according to the corresponding rhetorical movement (Introduction/Gap/Objective/Methodology/Result/Conclusion), based on the model proposed by Swales and Feak (2009) and enhanced by Feltrim (2004). Regarding the parallel corpus, original and translated texts were aligned side by side. Time frame refers to issues published within the four last years (2018-2021). In this paper we present some partial results, with data extracted from one of the national journals (Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Turismo – RBTur – Brazilian Journal of Tourism Research) and one of the international journals (Journal of Travel Research - JTR). A total of 92 pairs of abstracts/translations extracted from RBTur were aligned, divided into sentences and annotated. Within the same time frame, 360 abstracts extracted from JTR were divided into sentences and annotated.  As practical implications of this research, we point out the potential application of the corpus as (1) a teaching resource in Methodology and Academic Writing classes (2) a source for data extraction and observation aimed at different types of Linguistics research (3) an input for the development of scientific writing tools and (4) a source of information for students, professors, and researchers. The originality of the research lies in the fact that the corpus consists of scientific texts exclusively from the field of tourism.

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Author Biographies

Ivanir Delvizio, São Paulo State University

Doctor and Master in Linguistic Studies from Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) and a degree in Translation (UNESP). She is currently a lecturer at UNESP. E-mail: ivanir.delvizio@unesp.br

Yanae Pereira da Silva, Universidade Estadual Paulista

Undergraduate student in Tourism at Paulista State University. She is carrying out undergraduate research. She has a scholarship from the Tutorial Education Program (PET). E-mail: yanae.silva@unesp.br

Mariana Nascimento Jordão, Universidade Estadual Paulista

Tourism undergraduate student at São Paulo State University (UNESP). Scientific Initiation Fellow under the Pibic Programme. E-mail: mn.jordao@unesp.br

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Published
2023-10-15
How to Cite
Delvizio, I., Silva, Y. P. da, & Jordão, M. N. (2023). Building a corpus of tourism scientific texts: foundations, methodology and potentialities. ATELIÊ DO TURISMO, 7(2), 103 - 126. https://doi.org/10.55028/at.v7i2.18347
Issue
Vol 7 No 2 (2023): jul - dez
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ARTIGOS

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