Adventure tourism terminology: development of a trilingual glossary (Portuguese-English-Spanish)

• Grant number: 14/11418-9
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: September 01, 2014
• End date: November 30, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Ivanir Azevedo Delvizio
• Grantee: Ivanir Azevedo Delvizio
• Host Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rosana. Rosana , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Adventure Tourism refers to tourism movements derived from the practice of non-competitive recreational adventure activities. Due to its great natural diversity, Brazil has become an important destination for adventure activities and attracted many international tourists, which contributes to the economic development of many regions. The aim of this project is to create a Trilingual Glossary of Adventure Tourism (Portuguese-English-Spanish) in order to provide a tool to make international communication easier in this area. The glossary will be divided into three main parts: Adventure Activities; Equipments and Safety Management. The terms to be included in the glossary have already been collected by means of the software WordSmith Tools and registered in terminological records. The project will be developed by means of individual projects carried out by tourism undergraduates, who will be responsible for a set of terms and the search for their equivalents in English or Spanish. The search for terms, definitions, contexts and equivalents in Spanish and English will be based on two corpora consisted of works on Adventure Tourism originally written in Spanish and English. Data collected from the corpora will be registered in the terminological records and compared. The research involves the domains of Terminology, Bilingual Terminology, Corpus Linguistics and Adventure Tourism. In relation to theoretical fundamentals and methodology, we follow Socioterminology (FAULSTICH, 2006; GAUDIN, 1993) and Terminology Communicative Theory (CABRÉ, 1999) concepts. (AU)