Neologisms of the modern terminological field of the hotel business

Abstract

This article is analytical and expository, concerned with the terms of the hotel business in the Russian language. It analyzes the process of the emergence of new words in the language, explains the reasons for their emergence, associated with changes in the life of society. The authors note the influence of the Internet, social networks and globalization on spread of new words and trends, emphasize the role of human thinking and experience in the formation of new lexical units. In addition, the article indicates that new words first appear in colloquial speech, and then are fixed in the standard language. According to the results of the analysis, the authors analyzed more than 300 lexical unitswhich were divided into three thematic groups. The authors give a description of each group: the reasons for the functioning, the content of various types of neologisms. The goal of this research is to analyze and describe the terms of the studied terminological field. The tasks are: 1) to determine the groups of neologisms of the hotel business, 2) to consider the trend of word formation and 3) to identify the practical purpose of new words. The goal and the tasks of the work determined the methods of research: the definitional method, the method of comparison and generalization, as well as the method of quantitative estimation. The sources of information were the scripts of the conversations of hotel employees, the electronic dictionary of hotel terms [1], as well as documents from the Russian electronic scientific library “e-Library”. Etymology of many terms and meanings of their Russian[1]language definitions are described in the article. It is revealed that the neologisms of the hotel business are mainly borrowings from the English language. More than 92% of English borrowed words have been identified. Particular attention is paid to several terms presented in the vocabulary of Russian tourism in the last 3-4 years: MICE segment, SPAsibo (the name of the spa area in the hotel), lobby bar. The meaning of these new terms of the tourism sector is revealed.