Tourism discourse: describing and evaluating through adjectives
The promotional-commercial discourse of tourism under examination takes place in a
business-to-consumer, or ‘B2C’ context. Hotel Web sites can be characterised as
realisations of the genre ‘Web advert’2 containing an informational-promotional as well
as a commercial section. Their communicative purpose is to persuade receivers to
purchase the tourist product, carried out either with attractive images or linguistic