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Language can hurt, exclude, and perpetuate inequality – often without even realizing it. Phrases like “Na Slovenku po slovensky” (“in Slovakia, speak Slovak”) or mocking someone for his or her speech disorder may be innocent, but they have deeper meaning. In an interview with our colleague Jaroslava Rusinková from the Department of Sociolinguistics, you’ll learn…
Our colleague Dr. Katarína Gajdošová, PKcS (SAKO), spent a week at theFaculty of Philosophy at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice – and according to the participants’ reactions, it was worth it. First, she led a workshop entitled “Conscious Communication in a Team” on how our inner mindset influences collaboration and managing tense situations. At…
Our colleague Dr. phil. Jakob Horsch, M.A. (Department of the Slovak National Corpus, Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences), accepted an invitation from the Slovak Linguistic Society at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of Slovak and Media Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov. Dr. Horsch represented our…
Slovenský národný korpus pre prekladateľskú prax (“The Slovak National Corpus for Translation Practice“) – This online publication offers a wide selection of exercises for searching in bilingual, so-called parallel corpora. It is specifically tailored to the needs of translators of both literary and technical texts. The workbook includes a theoretical, historical, and methodological part that…