Anneleen Spiessens
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anneleen Spiessens plays a role.
2024 The ethnographic museum as a sensitive translation: The case of the AfricaMuseum in Belgium Museums as Spaces of Cultural Translation and Transfer, Decroupet, Sophie and Irmak Mertens (eds.), pp. 727–758 | Article
This article analyzes the recently renewed, permanent exhibition of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (AfricaMuseum) in Tervuren, Belgium. The museum is seen as a translational space, considering the parallels between, on the one hand, curatorial strategies to represent cultural otherness and,… read more
2021 Constructing Russian identity in news translation: The case of the Crimean crisis Translation and Interpreting Studies 16:3, pp. 368–393 | Article
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
2019 Deep memory during the Crimean crisis: References to the Great Patriotic War in Russian news translation Target 31:3, pp. 398–419 | Article
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… read more
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, Kecskés, István and Stavros Assimakopoulos (eds.), pp. 129–156 | Chapter
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