Among the various forms of interpreting, community interpreting is becoming increasingly important because there is continually more interpreting of this kind, it is constantly becoming more professional, and it is being included on an equal footing in the university curriculum. Since the first Critical Link international conference in Canada in the mid-1990s, research in this area has also made great strides. This development can also be seen in places where these areas started developing only recently, such as Slovenia. The article presents the Slovenian linguistic situation from the perspective of the need to ensure translation and interpreting primarily for social and healthcare institutions.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 46521698European linguistic situation in increasingly marked by multiculturalism and multilingualism, which represent a great social challenge. In order to ensure linguistic rights as basic human rights and an equal treatment of all, in front of the law as well as in other social spheres, interpreting and translation are becoming essential, whereas the regulation of the field indicates the level of democratisation in a society. The Slovenian linguistic situation in presented from the view of the need for community interpreting and a regulation of individual interpreting fields, finally proposing a solution for a more systematic regulation of the field in Slovenia.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 46992994The article analyses the Slovenian linguistic situation from the perspective of interpreting and translation. The basis is an analysis of Slovenian language policy after the Second World War and the difference between language-political goals before and after the independence. In the end, it focuses on contemporary Slovenian society and the need for community interpreting, which is a consequence of an increasingly multicultural Slovenian society, establishing that language-political goals nowadays do not follow the real needs of today's Slovenian society.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
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