Anneleen Spiessens
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anneleen Spiessens plays a role.
Articles
2021. Constructing Russian identity in news translation: The case of the Crimean crisis. Translation and Interpreting Studies 16:3, pp. 368–393
In the build-up to the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia’s state-owned media pushed a nationalist-imperialist narrative according to which Crimea is ethnically and historically Russian, and should, therefore, return to the Russian Motherland. This article underscores the critical role of news… read more | Article
2019. Deep memory during the Crimean crisis: References to the Great Patriotic War in Russian news translation. Target 31:3, pp. 398–419
In Russian media and statements by Kremlin officials, the current war in Ukraine is regularly imagined through the lens of World War II. Protection of ethnic kins in Crimea against their local “fascist” government is even invoked to justify the annexation of the peninsula in March 2014. A narrative… read more | Article
2017. Chapter 6. Face-threatening e-mail complaint negotiation in a multilingual business environment: A discursive analysis of refusal and disagreement strategies. Current Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics, Kecskes, Istvan and Stavros Assimakopoulos (eds.), pp. 129–156
This paper builds on an authentic corpus of German- and French-language business e-mails on complaint refusals gathered at the sales department of a Belgian multinational company. Based on existing research in pragmatics and genre-analysis, our study offers a discursive analysis of company refusal… read more | Chapter