Anglicisms in tourism discourse. A corpus-based analysis.

The study analyses the role of English within the context of tourism, concentrating on the phenomenon of Anglicisms, i.e. the lexical borrowing of English words, idioms or characteristic features into a foreign language. A corpus of an Italian in-flight magazine was created using a professional corpus query system, detecting the most used Anglicisms, their characteristics and how they operate within the text.