La néologie dans le domaine du tourisme, entre langue générale et langue de spécialité

In spite of its multidisciplinarity, tourism can be considered as a specialized field as it owns a peculiar terminology. In this paper, we analyse the vocabulary of tourism from both a terminological and a neological point of view, based on a specialised corpus realised at the University of Verona. Among the different word-formation processes, compounds formed by « tourisme + ADJ » prove to be a productive syntactic pattern and justify the interest of an incremental model. For several reasons, neologisms coined from this pattern are not always catachrestic innovations. On the borderline between specialised and non-specialised discourse, the neology of tourism sheds light on both societal transformations and the evolution of a discipline, tourism itself, still in search of recognition.