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Speech Act and Adjective Preferences in Online Hotel Reviews: Corpus Analysis in US Context

Cilt: 11 Sayı: 2 30 Haziran 2023
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Speech Act and Adjective Preferences in Online Hotel Reviews: Corpus Analysis in US Context

Abstract

Post-consumption reviews have a significant impact on others’ purchase choices, especially the negative comments about received services. Thanks to the extensity of the internet, today the reviews can be found in CMC. The authenticity of these reviews makes them also useful data sources for researchers. In this present study, 344 online reviews from native English speaker US citizens about 5 different hotels were collected on the worldwide-known website called Booking.com, in order to find out which speech acts and adjectives are most frequently preferred by the writers of the reviews. Findings showed that the majority of the reviews include complaints about the services the writers get, however, almost half of them (N=150) also included positive comments about the services. The two most frequently used adjectives were found to be dirty (N=133) and clean (N=59) which is an important indicator of the feature of the institutions that reviewers are most interested in, since these adjectives are antonyms of each other. The findings of the study are expected to be useful for hotel managements and corpus linguists as it sheds light on the expectations of the possible travelers and the way that they use the language to convey their messages in this specific corpus.

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Dilbilim (Diğer)

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Haziran 2023

Gönderilme Tarihi

13 Mart 2023

Kabul Tarihi

22 Mayıs 2023

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2023 Cilt: 11 Sayı: 2

Kaynak Göster

APA
Eyisüren, İ. İ., Karatepe, Ç., & Ayhan, E. (2023). Speech Act and Adjective Preferences in Online Hotel Reviews: Corpus Analysis in US Context. International Journal of Languages’ Education and Teaching, 11(2), 70-80. https://doi.org/10.29228/ijlet.68870