A Linguistic Analysis of Ten Idioms Tour Guide Use

A tour guide is a person who does a verbal action that is to guide visitors in the language of their choice. He provides assistance and information to people on organized tours. This task allows him/her to use a specialized language with a large portion of texts that is made up of a variety of multi-word units (MWUs). One type of MWU is idioms. It is hypothesized that idioms used by a tour guide correspond with the type of job he /she doing, i.e. they have the function of informing and advising with ideational references to the outside world. The aim of this paper is to examine a number of idioms that a tour guide uses in his/her work , focusing primarily on the functions, structures and types of those idiom.