Une perspective francophone pour l’étude des néologismes touristiques

This paper deals with French neologisms in the field of tourism, with a special focus on those belonging to specific French-speaking areas, in particular regional words from Charente, Normandy and Savoie describing holidaymakers. Based on a sample of words added to the last edition of Le Petit Larousse illustré 2023, our analysis aims to show their description in other French dictionaries (both professional and collaborative) as well as their diffusion in a large web corpus. The results show that not all the new words or new meanings are actually frequent in the corpus: the reasons for their inclusion, therefore, seem to be more related with the publishing house’s lexicographic tradition and with the choice to record a category of words sharing the same features, both from a semantic and a sociolinguistic point of view.