Elena Manca
List of John Benjamins publications for which Elena Manca plays a role.
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
