O NIEKTORÝCH LINGVISTICKÝCH PROBLÉMOCH V TEÓRII VEREJNEJ SPRÁVY

• Authors: Juraj Nemec , Peter Kukliš

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On some linguistic problems in the theory of public administration

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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A clear language is necessary and ultimate precondition for proper understanding of professional texts – however, there are many terms used non-systematically in the Slovak academic literature. Our article deals with problems whentranslating key public administration terms – governance, government, public admnistration and administration. We suggest that the meta-term today is governance, rather difficult to translate properly into the Slovak language – and we ask all the authors to use its possible translations only if this meta-level is discussed. The authors also document the second dimension of translation problems – many existing texts in English do not use core terms properly – one such example is the publicationEuropean Principles for Public Administration – in reality the text deals only with administrative law principles. To prevent problems with translating of terms and different sources we suggest that the “contextual” approach shall be used – first the authors of translations shoud read the text carefully for its contents and only afterwards decide how to translate its core terms.

Keywords

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TRANSLATION; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; GOVERNANCE; GOVERNMENT; ENGLISH; SLOVAK; LANGUAGE

• Publisher: Institute of State and Law of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Právny obzor. Teoretický časopis pre otázky štátu a práva (Juridical Review. Theoretical journal for the questions of state and law)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 98
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 602 – 611

Contributors

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Juraj Nemec

• Ekonomicko-správní fakulta, Masarykova univerzita Brno, Czech Republic

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Peter Kukliš