Publications – Page 2 – Genealogies of Knowledge

Editions, translations, transformations: refashioning the Arabic Aristotle in Egypt and metropolitan Europe, 1940–1980

28/04/2020 Mona Baker

Kamran Karimullah Palgrave Communications volume 6, Article number: 3 (2020) OPEN ACCESS DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0376-9 Abstract Like translations, critical editions can play an important role in the language-mediated evolution of political concepts. This paper offers a case-study of a modern edition of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics by the famous twentieth-century Egyptian philosopher and father of ‘Arab existentialism’ Abd al-Rahman Badawi (d. 2002). It draws on

Entries for Translating Cultures Glossary and Exhibition

28/04/2020 Jan Buts

The AHRC Translating Cultures Theme is preparing a glossary of keywords and an online exhibition focused on concepts and objects of translation. Our entries can be found here: Baker, M. – Activism Buts, J. – Copy and Copyright Jones, H. – Visualising Textual Patterns Karimullah, K.I. – Critical Edition

Sketching women: a corpus-based approach to representations of women’s agency in political Internet corpora in Arabic and English

06/04/2020 Henry Jones

Authors: Kamran Karimullah in Corpora OPEN ACCESS DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2020.0184 Abstract: In this paper, I use methods from corpus linguistics to examine patterns pertaining to the representation of women in online Arabic- and English-language political corpora. I highlight the discursive differences and similarities that characterise the two corpora. Using word sketches, I identify representational categories in each corpus that are indexed

Methods and visualization tools for the analysis of medical, political and scientific concepts in Genealogies of Knowledge

25/03/2020 Henry Jones

Authors: Saturnino Luz & Shane Sheehan in Palgrave Communications OPEN ACCESS DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0423-6 Abstract: An approach to establishing requirements and developing visualization tools for scholarly work is presented which involves, iteratively: reviewing published methodology, in situ observation of scholars at work, software prototyping, analysis of scholarly output produced with the support of text visualization software, and interviews with users. This approach

Jowett’s Thucydides: A corpus-based analysis of translation as political intervention

20/03/2020 Henry Jones

Author: Henry Jones in Translation Studies OPEN ACCESS DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14781700.2020.1732230 Abstract: Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War is a key text in the classical Greek canon and an important source of insights into the structures and tensions at the heart of ancient Athenian democracy. Consequently, modern interpretations of his analysis have repeatedly played a major role in shaping debates on the viability and

Community and authority in ROAR Magazine

29/01/2020 Henry Jones

Author: Jan Buts in Palgrave Communications OPEN ACCESS DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0392-9 Abstract: This article responds to a common critique of corpus-based studies as decontextualized exercises in linguistic analysis by illustrating how, in the case of internet-based data, the concordance line can reveal rather than obscure aspects of a textual body’s cultural constitution. The data for the study consists of 100 articles

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