You might want to get in touch with Alice Freitas at alice@ufu.br
In her doctoral thesis she looked at tourist brochures and other materials
and
she's compiled a corpus of texts from the tourist industry.
cheers
tony.
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Dr Tony Berber Sardinha
Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
tony4@uol.com.br
http://sites.uol.com.br/tony4/homepage.html
http://homepages.infoseek.com/~corpuslinguistics/homepage.html
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> From: Pascual Cantos <pcantos@fcu.um.es>
> To: corpora@hd.uib.no
> Subject: Corpora: Tourist English Corpora
> Date: 10 December 1998 15:10
>
> Dear List members,
>
> A PhD student of mine (Rafael Rocamora) wants to know if there are any
> corpora available on Tourist English, that is English used for tourist
> purposes (catering, hotel and all this stuff)???
>
> Help is most appreciated!
>
> Saludos
>
> Pascual Cantos
>
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>
> Dr. Pascual Cantos Gomez
>
> Departamento de Filologia Inglesa
> Universidad de Murcia
> c/. Santo Cristo, 1
> 30071 Murcia
>
> Tel.: 968 364365; +34 968 364365
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> E-mail: pcantos@fcu.um.es
>