Consistent terminology can positively influence communication, information transfer, and proper understanding. In multilingual written communication processes, challenges are augmented due to translation variants. The main aim of this study was to implement the Herfindahl-Hirshman Index (HHI) for the assessment of translated terminology in parallel corpora for the evaluation of translated terminology. This research was conducted on three types of legal domain subcorpora, dating from different periods: the Croatian-English parallel corpus (1991–2009), Latin-English and Latin-Croatian versions of the Code of Canon Law (1983), and English and Croatian versions of the EU legislation (2013). After the terminology extraction process, validation of term candidates was performed, followed by an evaluation. Terminology consistency was measured using the HHI—a commonly accepted measurement of market concentration. Results show that the HHI can be used for measuring terminology consistency to improve information transfer and message understanding. In translation settings, the process shows the need for quality management solutions.

The current paper presents the analysis of translation strategies and linguistic characteristics in Slovene translations of commercial car slogans from English and German. There is no uniform definition of the advertising slogan in the scientific literature; therefore, we attempt to provide the definition of a slogan in the context of marketing communication. One of the main functions of both social and commercial advertising is to provide information to the target audience and make it act in the way desired by the advertisers. In contemporary Translation Studies, translation is defined as a transnational and intercultural communication activity. Therefore, one of the primary tasks of translators is to mediate not only between languages but also between cultures. The objective of the paper has been to identify and describe the language features of car slogans at phonological, lexical, syntactic, and semantic levels, with due attention to the functionality of these messages in comparison with the messages relayed by slogans in other trades. The study has revealed that, due to the specific market niche, most car slogans tend to use specific language devices and discourse. The theoretical framework is based on German functionalist approaches in Translation Studies – Holz-Mänttäri’s theory of action (Handlungstheorie) and Reiß/Vermeer’s theory of translation’s purpose (Skopostheorie).

Prispevek obravnava narečna imena zdravilnih rastlin v Prekmurju, pokrajini na skrajnem SV Slovenije ob meji z Avstrijo, Madžarsko in Hrvaško. Narečni fitonimi so predstavljeni z jezikoslovnega (etimološki, besedotvorni) in...

The authors of this paper present the results of desk research and content analysis of Facebook campaigns run by commercial brands. Every brand aims to increase fan activity on its Facebook page, consisting of likes, comments and shares....

This book focuses on court interpreting, an interesting and upgrowing area of research in translation studies as a relatively young interdisciplinary science. Court intepreting is compulsory in asylum proceedings, police interrogations, court hearings, and healthcare when foreign citizens are involved who do not speak or understand Slovenian as the official language. This increased interest stems from the fact that recently many countries which previously had limited experience with foreign citizens are now facing increasing economic migration, which poses certain challenges and requires appropriate language policies and additional training for court interpreters. Court interpreters are experts and specialists in multilingual mediation who act as intermediaries between the court as a state institution and foreign citizens who are unfamiliar with legal and regulatory proceedures and do not understand or speak the language of the judiciary, which is in our case Slovenian. This interdisciplinary book seeks ways and means to improve cooperation between court interpreters and legal experts. The discussion focuses on the establishment and development of intercultural legal interpreting clinics, which enable training and education of future interpreters and lawyers, and the results of research in the light of the international TRANSLaw project.

Modernising historical literature into contemporary language is a form of diachronic intralingual translation that supports access to written cultural heritage. For low-resource languages such as Slovene, this task is hindered by orthographic, lexical and syntactic shifts, as well as the scarcity of parallel data. We present a two-stage pipeline that combines a fine-tuned No Language Left Behind (NLLB) model with Claude Opus 4.8 post-editing for the modernisation of 16th-century Slovene literature, retaining archaic words and phrases while normalising the alphabet, orthography and grammar. Using Jurij Dalmatin’s 1584 Bible and its 2017 modernised edition, we constructed an aligned parallel corpus of 14,876 sentence and clause-level pairs through Bohorič-to-Gaj normalisation and LaBSE-based embedding alignment. The hybrid pipeline achieved the best overall scores, reaching BLEU 45.78, CHRF 67.68 and METEOR 71.72, with TER 43.25 and CER 34.00. Its gains over the standalone LLM baseline were large and statistically significant across all the metrics, while its improvement over the fine-tuned NLLB model was smaller and significant mainly for overlap-based measures. We applied the pipeline further to Tulščak’s Kerszhanske leipe molitve (1579), producing the first preliminary modernisation of the earliest known Slovene prayer book assessed qualitatively and tested the generalisation on additional 16th-century texts, including an out-of-domain legal text. The results demonstrate that combining task-specific neural machine translation with controlled LLM post-editing offers a practical strategy for modernising low-resource historical texts and contributes a reusable methodology for digital cultural heritage preservation.