Hiromi Ban
Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Takashi Oyabu
Kokusai Business Gakuin College, Japan
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Published in: KEER2014. Proceedings of the 5th Kanesi Engineering and Emotion Research; International Conference; Linköping; Sweden; June 11-13
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 100:105, p. 1255-1263
Published: 2014-06-11
ISBN: 978-91-7519-276-5
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
Nowadays; approximately sixteen million Japanese travel abroad; and six million foreigners come to Japan for sightseeing. It can be said that it is just the time of sightseeing right now. Therefore; the knowledge of tourism has become more and more important; and reading materials in English that can be said to be a world common language has been indispensable. If we have beforehand enough knowledge of the features of English in this field; reading of the texts will become easier. In this paper; we investigated several English books on tourism; comparing with journalism in terms of metrical linguistics. In short; frequency characteristics of character- and word-appearance were investigated using a program written in C++. These characteristics were approximated by an exponential function. Furthermore; we calculated the percentage of Japanese junior high school required vocabulary and American basic vocabulary to obtain the difficulty-level as well as the K-characteristic of each material. As a result; it was clearly shown that English materials for tourism have a similar tendency to literary writings in the characteristics of character-appearance. Besides; the values of the K-characteristic for the materials on tourism are high; and the books with older publication and with higher specialty are more difficult than journalism.
English style analysis; Metrical linguistics; Statistical analysis; Text data mining; Tourism
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