Elena Manca

Elena Manca is a researcher and lecturer of English Linguistics, Language and Translation at the University of Salento (Lecce) and teaches ‘English Language and Linguistics’ and ‘Translation into/from English and Italian’ at the BA in Linguistic Mediation.

Her areas of research are Corpus Linguistics, cross-cultural studies, translation studies, the language of social media, and language teaching. In particular, she has extensively investigated the linguistic, visual and cultural features of tourism discourse by cross-comparing several multimodal tourist texts in English and in Italian produced by a variety of cultures. She has also described the implications of linguistic and cultural differences and similarities on the translation of tourist texts.