Elena Manca
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elena Manca is involved.
2025 Social media, promotion and translation: Advertising destinations on Facebook From Disruptions to New Beginnings: The evolution of translation (studies) through technologies, Gaspari, Federico and Silvia Bernardini (eds.), pp. 252–284 | Article
This study examines the language employed on the social media platform Facebook for promoting domestic tourist destinations, focusing on the Facebook pages managed by the tourism authorities of Italy, Britain, and the United States. The analysis delves into how content is structured within… read more
2011 The analysis of meaning between language and culture in the tourism domain Languages in Contrast 11:2, pp. 172–192 | Article
The relationship between language and culture is an interplay between linguistic choices and cultural filters; if we accept that language is an expression of culture, i.e. of the beliefs, customs, behaviours and rituals constituting the cultural identity of a group of people, then it is crucial… read more
2010 From phraseology to culture: Qualifying adjectives in the language of tourism Patterns, Meaningful Units and Specialized Discourses, Römer-Barron, Ute and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 105–122 | Article
2008 From phraseology to culture: Qualifying adjectives in the language of tourism Patterns, meaningful units and specialized discourses, Römer-Barron, Ute and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 368–385 | Article
This paper aims to describe the phraseology associated with adjectives in the language of tourism. The adjectives appearing in the word list of a British farmhouse holidays corpus were grouped into three different semantic fields (‘description of rooms’, ‘description of surroundings’, and… read more
