Wannaporn Sudlar. Genre analysis of tourist information leaflets . Master's Degree(English for Business and Industry). King Mongkut's Institute of Technology North Bangkok. Central Library. : King Mongkut's Institute of Technology North Bangkok, 2005.
Abstract:
This study presents a genre analysis of tourist leaflets. The purpose of this study
was to analyze the move structure of information in leaflets of the Tourism Authority
of Thailand (TAT) and investigate and analyze persuasive adjectives used in 4
leaflets. One leaflet from each major region of Thailand was selected. Thus the data
analyzed in this study were represented the tourism leaflets from the Central part,
North, South, Northeastern of Thailand. Each leaflet contains about 20-40 pages. The
analysis was based on the theory of genre analysis by Swales (1990.)
The results showed that move appeared in 12 parts but not all TAT tourist
leaflets contain all 12 moves. Only 8 main moves which are Move 2: Thai Term
Glossary, Move 3: General description of the city, Move 4: How to get there, Move 5:
Place to visit, Move 6: Events & Festival, Move 8: Interesting activity, Move 10:
Useful calls/Important telephone number and Move 11: Publisher appeared in all
leaflets. For move consequence, it was found that 3 leaflets have the same structure.
Then, the next part is an analysis of persuasive adjectives. The study focuses the
persuasive adjectives to 8 themes which are Ancient Cultural Attractions, Leisure
Activities, Natural Attractions, Quality, Quantity, Food, Comparative and Superlative
and Miscellaneous. The results showed that the persuasive adjectives were found on a
quality theme higher than others theme. However, A small number of adjectives in the
food theme were found.