Open AccessPORTRAYING THE WORD “TOURISM” IN ENGLISH
Author(s) -
Eva Tuckyta Sari Sujatna,
Heriyanto Heriyanto,
Ekaning Krisnawati,
Rosaria Mita Amalia,
Kasno Pamungkas
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
sosiohumaniora
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2443-2660
DOI - 10.24198/sosiohumaniora.v22i2.27088
Subject(s) - coca , tourism , newspaper , context (archaeology) , government (linguistics) , advertising , word (group theory) , word lists by frequency , american english , linguistics , political science , history , computer science , business , artificial intelligence , sentence , law , philosophy , archaeology
Now days, tourism is counted as a large industry that could support the government income. Since tourism is important, it was essential to promote it by online and offline media. Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) was claimed as a large corpus of language is the source of the data taken in this paper. The aims of the research are, firstly, to describe the distribution of the word “tourism” in COCA since 1990 up to 2019 including its text genres and secondly, to describe the pair of the word “tourism” in COCA since 1990 up to 2019 including its context. The research designed implemented is a mixed-method design, in which quantitative and qualitative approaches are combined. It was reported, firstly, from 9833 corpus containing the word “tourism” found in COCA, the highest number is newspaper followed by academy, magazine, spoken, web, fiction, blog, TV, and movie. Secondly, from the highest number to the smallest number of the subtypes of the word tourism are related to nature, culture, animal, place, sport, history, prostitution, health, religion, science, memory, crime, movie, and charity.