Robert Neather
List of John Benjamins publications in which Robert Neather is involved.
Articles
2026 Chapter 14. Museum practice and translation studies: The translator’s role in museum exhibitions Translation Studies between Disciplines and Practices, van Doorslaer, Luc and Yves Gambier (eds.), pp. 266–287 | Chapter
Museums are major sites of translation in which the production of multilingual interpretive resources is crucial to fulfilling the museum’s institutional purpose in the global heritage milieu. Equally, from the perspective of translation studies research, the academe has in recent years shown… read more
2024 Visitor experience as translation: Intertextuality and identity in experiences of an American Chinese museum Museums as Spaces of Cultural Translation and Transfer, Decroupet, Sophie and Irmak Mertens (eds.), pp. 615–636 | Article
This paper explores the museum visitor experience as a form of translation. It argues that if a given exhibition can be seen as a cultural translation, then it is also true that the visitor’s reading of that exhibition constitutes a further layer of translation, as the visitor enacts their own… read more
2021 Museums and translation Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 5, Gambier, Yves and Luc van Doorslaer (eds.), pp. 159–164 | Chapter