Nancy Hawker
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nancy Hawker plays a role.
Articles
2018 The journey of Arabic human rights testimonies, from witnesses to audiences via Amnesty International Translation and Interpreting in Non-Governmental Organisations, Tesseur, Wine (ed.), pp. 65–91 | Article
Within the human rights knowledge production infrastructure, information undergoes processes of entextualisation, archiving, publication, and reception. This article examines the place of testimonies – first-person accounts of suffering and/or historic events – in Amnesty International. A network… read more
2018 Arabic borrowing of the Hebrew word menahēl ‘manager’: Articulations and ideologies Arabic in Contact, Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 331–347 | Chapter
Ideologies, or ways of understanding one’s relation to the world, impede or encourage, and affect the form of, language contact practices such as borrowing and codeswitching. This is illustrated by the pragmatic functions – informative or humorous – of the Israeli Hebrew word menahēl ‘boss’ in… read more