The French Lexicon of Tourism Management in the Multilingual Dictionary of Tourism: A Contrastive Analysis with the English Language

Abstract

For this research study we identified lexical units from a comparable corpus of approximately three million words in English, Spanish and French, taken web pages for private lodgings and accommodations. This corpus has lexical units related to hotel accommodations, services, facilities and management; these units constitute the entries of the Multilingual Dictionary of Tourism. In this article, we will focus our study on the lexical field of hotel management in French of the dictionary: simple and compound nouns. After, we’ll analyse some differences between the two languages and the solution taken for finding specific equivalents of chosen units in English.