Siobhan Brownlie
List of John Benjamins publications for which Siobhan Brownlie plays a role.
Articles
2010 Committed approaches and activism Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 1, Gambier, Yves and Luc van Doorslaer (eds.), pp. 45–48 | Article
2008 Resistance and non-resistance to boundary crossing in translation research Target 20:2, pp. 333–347 | Discussion
Ideas, concepts, theories and methods spread within and across disciplines, communities, countries and traditions. Richard Dawkins (1976: 214) has suggested that memes (units of cultural transmission) are in competition for survival, and that in some situations of stability it is difficult for a… read more
2004 Derridian-inspired ideas for the conduct of translators Babel 50:4, pp. 310–331 | Article
Abstract
The article aims to show that ‘deconstruction’ can be useful to practising translators. It is important not to proff er generalizations about ‘deconstruction’, but to study specific texts. I initially review Philip Lewis’ ideas before going on to show how Jacques Derrida’s text "Force… read more
2003 Investigating explanations of translational phenomena: A case for multiple causality Target 15:1, pp. 111–152 | Article
The article investigates the issue of providing explanations for translational phenomena through discussion of data provided by a case study of the English translations of works by French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard. In the study four major sources of explanation are proposed: individual… read more