4.1.1　The Comparable Corpus

The comparable corpus for the contrastive analysis between the English original texts and the translational tourism texts is structured as below.

Table 4.1　Corpus Com position

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The corpus is com posed by two sub-corpora：O riginal English Tourism Texts（OETT）and Translated English Tourism Texts（TETT）.Considering the distinguishing characteristics in introducing cultural tourist attractions and natural touristattractions，each sub-corpus consists of two parts：cultural tourism texts and natural ones.The file size of each part is around 30，000 words and the proportion is nearly half.OETT which ismade up of 69 cultural tourism texts（49.77%）and 73 natural tourism texts（50.23%）contains 60，310 words.TETT which consists of 56 cultural tourism texts（49.97%）and 72 natural tourism texts（50.03%）includes 60，360 words.

The corpus mentioned above is a self-made comparable corpus specified in tourism promotional texts.ANC sub-corpus“berlitz”（under the domain of“travel guides”）which contains 179 files and 1，029，116 words is taken as the reference corpus in this thesis.