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Our colleagues Dr. Jaroslava Rusinková and Dr. Estera Kövérová (Department of Social Linguistics, Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics) took part in the international conference ‘Truthers’ and ‘Truth Defenders’: Understanding Conflicts over Conspiracy Theories, held from 6 to 7 November in Lund in Sweden. In their presentation entitled The instrumentalization of language in the pursuit of truth, or…
What units of measurement were used in Hungary in the past? Did you know that okov, merica or viedenská pinta were not only old words, but also the units of measurement for liquids, loose or solid materials? On the occasion of the Year of Ľudovít Štúr we offer you a new poster displaying units of…
This week we bring you other three episodes of the series Posvieťme si na slovenčinu (“Have a look at Slovak”). Our colleague Romana Krolčíková discusses the beauty of the Slovak language and answers this week’s language issues: For more information, please click here. This 30-episode TV series is also available at the YouTube channel of the TASR.
Our colleague Dr. Stella Ondrejčiková (Department of Dialectology, Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics) had a presentation entitled Takto hovorí o jazyku veda (“This is how science speaks about language”) on 14 November 2025 at the Pavol Jozef Šafárik High School in Rožňava. It was a part of the series „Navštív svoju školu – Spoznaj svojho…