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We invite you to participate in the 24th Slovak Onomastic Conference: Continuity, Variability and Innovation in Onomastics, that will be held 17–19 August, 2026 in Kongresové centrum SAV in Stará Lesná. Please fill out the registration form till 15 April, 2026. To view detailed information, including registration, please click here.

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 about: You…

Our colleague Dr. Katarína Gajdošová, PKcS (SAKO), spent a week at the Faculty 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 the…

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 situate the…