Jorge Soto Almela

Jorge Soto Almela is a researcher at the University of Murcia, Spain, affiliated with the Translation, Didactics and Cognition research group. He holds a PhD from the University of Murcia awarded in 2014.

His educational background includes:

• PhD in Translation Studies, University of Murcia (2014). His doctoral thesis, supervised by Dr. Marta Navarro Coy, examined cultural terms in Spanish-English tourism contexts, analyzing translation techniques, manipulation strategies, and real-world reception among English-speaking users.

Dr. Soto Almela specializes in Translation Studies with a focus on tourism discourse, where he investigates cross-cultural communication challenges through cognitive and didactic frameworks. His work bridges theoretical linguistics with practical applications in language education, particularly examining how cultural concepts are processed and received in bilingual tourism settings.

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He actively contributes to the Translation, Didactics and Cognition research group, which integrates cognitive science methodologies with translation theory to develop innovative language teaching approaches and cross-cultural communication models.