Text Analysis On English Tourist Spots Introduction

With the improvement of economic strength in China, our nation's international status and image have been promoting greatly. Accordingly, its domestic tourist industry is mushrooming and prosperous, especially foreigners traveling in China developing rapidly, and it has attracted a large number of foreign visitors to have sightseeing in China. Shanxi province is holding this opportunity tightly to exploit the regional historical and natural resources and push the foreigners traveling in Shanxi forward. In this case, the work of the publicity and service in regions or spots of interests have been demanded regularly. Each region of the province have adopted various means marketing their own visiting places, by means of publicizing manuals, traveling guides, touring advertisement, tourist spot introductions etc. Of all these means, tourist spot introduction is one of the most direct and most common approaches people would like to adopt. It is a multiple text combing functions of information, explanation and fascination and it is as well an exact base to explore its special and practical meaning.In fact, many researchers'study recently on tourist spot introduction, however, is only in level of wording, sentence structure and translating standards. This thesis will explain and analyze it from a new angle—text analysis in which theories of coherence & cohesion, theme/rheme and thematic progression will be employed with the real and specific cases of Shanxi spots introduction. Besides, the linguistic features of tourist spot introduction emerges and accurate, vivid and all-around information of traveling places presents to the potential visitors to give an explicit frame to this practical text and a better understanding to inner structures. In a word, a beautiful English tourist spot introduction is able to stimulate visitors'traveling motivation, improve touring image and do the service for the development of foreigners visit in China.This thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter One presents comprehensively the development of Chinese tourism of foreign affairs and the tourist achievements in Shanxi province. Besides, the characteristics and studying meaning of the tourist spots introduction as well as the new angle of writing and translation study in tourist spot introduction have been mentioned too. Chapter Two states the theories that employed in analyzing the tourist spot introduction mainly from two aspects—coherence/cohesion and theme/rheme and thematic progression. Chapter Three introduces the linguistic features of tourist spot introduction in lexicon, syntax and text. Meanwhile, the contents of tourist spot introduction will be categorized into three situations, humanity, nature and the combination of the two with which the contents and writing criteria of tourist spots introduction will be explained profoundly and comprehensively. So, this chapter will discuss from macroscopical level and make the foundation for its writing and translation process. Chapter Four interprets the application of text theories with real cases. Chapter Five makes a conclusion to the whole thesis and points out the findings and limitations of study. At last, some suggestion and recommendations have been also mentioned to encourage more people's study on this field for further development.