Characteristics of the tourist image of China in the reviews of Russian tourists

Sun Weifang

The tourist image of the country is an important component of the full image of the country. The relevance of this work is determined by the insufficient study of tourist reviews presented in Russian social networks in the aspect of the study of lexical and stylistic means of this type of text. The article examines the lexical representation of the image of China in the reviews of Russian tourists on social networks. To characterize the image of China, four thematic groups were identified in the article: people, cuisine, city and nature.

Keywords:tourist discourse, tourist review, image of China, people, cuisine, city, nature.