The building of specialised corpora represents an opportunity to verify, on the basis of a wide range of authentic texts in various fields of activity, the key elements of language function and variation. The article uses the example of building a specialised corpus in the field of tourism to address the problem of the definition of register variation, and languages for specific purposes within this frame, and offers arguments for the terms register and genre variation and, consequently, the terms discourse, discourse-specific texts and discourse-specific languages.
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