Siobhan Brownlie

List of John Benjamins publications for which Siobhan Brownlie plays a role.

Brownlie, Siobhan 2010 Committed approaches and activismHandbook of Translation Studies: Volume 1, Gambier, Yves and Luc van Doorslaer (eds.), pp. 45–48 | Article
Brownlie, Siobhan 2008 Resistance and non-resistance to boundary crossing in translation researchTarget 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
Brownlie, Siobhan 2004 Derridian-inspired ideas for the conduct of translatorsBabel 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
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