【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 and three ways (road, sea, air) to get there. Therefore, we say, tourism English has directive function. C. The Evocative Function “The evocative function is the use of language to create certain feelings in the hearer.” (Hu Zhuangling) For the relevant anizations or operators of tourism, it is urgent to attract more people to visit the tourist destinations. Therefore, tourism English is used to evoke the tourists39。 feeling of desire to e to visit that place or enjoy the services they provide, of course, with pay. For example: Hangzhou is one of China’s major scenic wonders as well as a famous culture city with a long history. Hangzhou is famous for its West Lake, an area of striking beauty. Covering square kilometers, and has such place of interest as Three Pools Mirroring the Moon. Originally a shallow bay adjoining the Qiantang River, it was gradually transformed into an inland lake by the sittingup of the outlet. “ The West Lake is parable with the girl Xi Zi, always charming with either light or heavy makeup”. Indeed it looks beautiful as the some beautiful poem. Some tourists want to check up the poem above, they are attracted by the beautiful words. Ⅲ .The Linguistic Features of Tourism English Identifying the features of tourism English studied is always necessary when we work on it. The distinctive features of tourism English distinguish it from the other branches of English, such as technology English, legal English and business English and so on. The paper will analyze the features from four aspects, The first is from the point of linguistics, which includes the lexical and grammatical point of view. The second is from its performative functioncourtesy feature. The third is from its style and the last is from the point of the culture. It is believable that tourism English will be made clearer according to the analysis of the exterior and interior features of tourism English. A. Lexical Feature “Lexicology is the branch of linguistics concerned with the study of the vocabulary of a given language. It deals with words, their origin, development, history, formation, meaning and application” is from An Introduction to English Lexicology. (Lin Chengzhang) “Lexicon, in its most general sense, is synonymous with vocabulary.”(Hu Zhuangling) Like other varieties of English, such as legal English or journalism English, tourism English has its own lexical features besides the very general use of English vocabulary. 1. The Technical Terms Terms consist of words and idioms. There are a large number of English words or idioms, which are specially used in tourism. They are called terms of tourism English. For example, before the flight sets off, the flight attendants tell the passengers: “Please stow all hand or carryon luggage under the seat in front of you or in the overhead partments.” There are several tourism terms in the sentence, which might be unclear to the tourist who has a journey by plane for the first time. The things passengers bring aboard the plane are called “hand or carryon luggage”. To “stow” them means to put them away. Thus the whole sentence can be paraphrased as following: Carryon luggage can fit either under the seat or in a special partment (enclosed space) above the seat over the heads of the passengers. Other terms like “package tour” (the travel agency bining tours and packaging them along with the necessary transportation and acmodations), “bedboard house” (the hotel providing a continental breakfast of coffee as well as sleeping acmodation to the guests), or “off season” (a time of the year when most of tourists do not take vacations or holidays) may appear now and then during one39。s tour. 2. The Proper Names Proper names can be seen almost everywhere in tourism and constitute a large part of tourism English vocabulary. Proper names in tourism range from the name of the destination of one39。s tour, such as a country, a city, or a tourist spot, to the name of hotel, a restaurant, or even a railway station, etc, which are involved in tourism. These proper names are usually unchangeable and are accepted by people with fix pronunciations and spellings sometimes even when they are translated from other languages. For example, The Forbidden City can be divided into two partsthe outer palaces and the inner palace. The outer palace mainly prises three magnificent halls the hall of supreme Harmony(太和殿 )， The Hall of Complete Harmony(中和殿 )and The Hall of Preserving Harmony(保和殿 ) .They are flanked by wings the hall of literary Glory(文華殿 )， Wenyuan Pavilion(文淵閣 )and the Inner Pavilion(內(nèi)閣 )and the Hall of Miliary Provess(武英殿 ).They also have the Hall of Delight Longevity(延禧宮 ).The Hall of Vltimate Greatness(養(yǎng)心殿 )and so on. They are so many halls and pavilions in Forbidden City. Not only in Forbidden City, but in other resort. Lijiang, in YunNan province, boasts of breathtaking wonderful sights, such as Black Dragon Pool(黑龍?zhí)?) Jade Dragon Snow Mountain(玉龍雪山 ), Tigher Leaping Ge(虎跳峽 )， Lugu lake(瀘沽湖 )and so on. From above, we can see, proper names are very important in tourism English. 3. Words and Idioms from Other Languages Like English itself, tourism English in its development has managed to widen its vocabulary by borrowing words or idioms from other languages. Because tourism means to travel in different places, go through different cultures and municate with people who speak different languages, it is more likely for tourism English to borrow words from other languages. For example, in the sentence, “Mapodoufu”is a special food in Sichuan province. It was created by an old woman. The idiom “Mapodoufu” is borrowed from Chinese character. Another example, “The large airplane is en route to a country which most of its passengers have never visited before,” the idiom “en route” is borrowed from French with the