Audrey Heijns
List of John Benjamins publications in which Audrey Heijns is involved.
Articles
2025 The manifestation of affordances: A case of Dutch retranslations of Lu Xun’s short stories Translation and Interpreting Studies 20:3, pp. 377–390 | Article
Research into retranslations has predominantly taken a textual approach by comparing the different versions of the same source text. Consequently, the reasons given for retranslation tend to focus on linguistic or cultural factors, which often include the retranslator’s aim to produce a new and… read more
2019 Interpreting practices in a colonial context: Interpreters of Chinese in the Dutch East Indies Translation and Interpreting Studies 14:3, pp. 372–391 | Article
This article investigates the experience of Dutch interpreters of Chinese in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) from the mid-nineteenth century until Indonesia’s independence nearly a century later. In the colonial context, the task of interpreters went beyond orally translating… read more