Nike K Pokorn
Biographic Data
| ID | 789717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nike K Pokorn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nike K |
| FAMILY NAME | Pokorn |
| SIGNATURE | POKORN N K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ljubljana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2152-612X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cultural consolidation through translation
The article deals with paraliterature in both senses of the term, as trivial literature and as a meta-literary form of literary criticism, and focuses, through a combination of bibliographical and documentary research and critical reading, on the role of translations of paraliterary texts in a literary periodical of a peripheral linguistic community in the period of cultural consolidation, i.e., in the Slovene linguistic community in the first ha…
Obscuring a translator in a translator museum
This article examines a rare example of a regional museum dedicated to a translator—the permanent Linhart Exhibition in the town of Radovljica, Slovenia—with the aim of exploring how the interplay between textual and visual elements in the exhibition (mis)represents Linhart's translatorial activity. The study begins with a critical literature review and a close reading of eight representative comprehensive histories of Slovene literature from the…
Ethics in Translation and Interpreting
Although the first documents addressing ethical questions in the form of codes of ethics emerged already in the 1950s and 1960s, the theoretical discourse on ethics of translation and interpreting only began to take shape in the latter part of the 20th century. The first notable theoretical works on the ethics of translation were published in French during the late 1980s and 1990s, authored by Antoine Berman and Anthony Pym. Ethical issues then s…
Simulated role plays or field observation? Usability testing of a healthcare phrasebook
The aim of this article is (1) to report on a usability study on the acceptability of a multilingual phrasebook for healthcare providers and (2) to compare the effectiveness and the efficiency of two key usability research methods: simulated role play and field observation. The usability study focused on the phrasebook's acceptability (i.e., the extent to which the users consider it to be appropriate and serve its purpose), and consisted of two s…
Translation and diaspora
This article revisits Gideon Toury’s ( 1995 , 2012 ) definition of translation as a fact of the target culture by highlighting the transfer of cultural images through literary translation in the periodicals of a US diaspora in the interwar period between the US Immigration Act of 1924 and the beginning of World War II in 1939. I argue that literary translations in diaspora periodicals fulfilled different roles and were used for strengthening not …
It’s so vital to learn Slovene”
Short-time migrants, who stay in the host country from one to 12 months, use mediation strategies including lingua francas, public-service interpreting and translation, translation technologies, intercomprehension, and learning the host country’s dominant language. The choices made by asylum seekers in Slovenia, a country of transit for the majority of asylum seekers, are analyzed on the basis of questionnaires answered by 127 current and former …
Do I want to learn a language spoken by two million people?”
Migrants’ intended length of stay influences their choices between using a lingua franca, language technology, ad-hoc interpreters and translators, intercomprehension, or learning the host country’s dominant language. To study this influence, data were collected through a questionnaire, semi-structured interviews, and a focus-group discussion from 15 long-term migrants (university language teachers) and eight mid-term migrants (teachers at two in…
The Dictates of the Market. The Future of Profession of Translators and Interpreters in a Post-Socialist EU-Member State
The article outlines the changes of the profession of translators and interpreters, and the development \nof the translator and interpreter training at the university level in the Republic of Slovenia, one of \nthe post-socialist EU member states, in the last 35 years. It also provides an insight into the present \nand future status of the profession by surveying the average earnings of junior translators in the \nSlovene and Russian translation …
Translational and cultural exchange between two cultures pushed to global periphery
Modes of contact among languages and cultures of smaller dissemination are worthy of study not only because they reveal the hegemonic weight of intermediary languages and cultures but also because they show how these cultures may choose to remain indifferent to each other for historical and political reasons. Slovene and Turkish are two prime examples which have had virtually no direct literary and cultural contacts. The papers included in this s…
Experience through translation — the translated experience
The Slovene understanding of Turkish culture is essentially created through indirect, translated contact. It was first expressed through traditional Slovene folk songs and stories, depicting the Ottoman Empire either as a threat or as a land of sensuality and opulence. During the time of Yugoslavia, perceptions of “the Turks” were influenced by the translated works of Bosnian authors, promoted by official policies aimed at creating “brotherhood a…
Why translation studies matters
"Whether Translation Studies really matters is an important and challenging question which practitioners of translation and interpreting raise repeatedly. TS scholars, many of whom are translators and interpreters themselves, are not indifferent to it either. The twenty papers of this thematic volume, contributed by authors from various parts of Europe, from Brazil and from Israel, address it in a positive spirit. Some do so through direct critic…
Translation and Mystical Texts
This article discusses the ambiguous issues that translators of religious, spiritual, and mystical texts may have to face. This is illustrated by means of two Middle English mystical texts that have been translated into Modern English and several other languages. In the translation of these (and similar texts), the role of translators often goes beyond that of interlingual mediators of messages and assumes unexpected functions. Firstly, I discuss…
Do I want to learn a language spoken by two million people?”
Migrants’ intended length of stay influences their choices between using a lingua franca, language technology, ad-hoc interpreters and translators, intercomprehension, or learning the host country’s dominant language. To study this influence, data were collected through a questionnaire, semi-structured interviews, and a focus-group discussion from 15 long-term migrants (university language teachers) and eight mid-term migrants (teachers at two in…
Translation and Mystical Texts
This article discusses the ambiguous issues that translators of religious, spiritual, and mystical texts may have to face. This is illustrated by means of two Middle English mystical texts that have been translated into Modern English and several other languages. In the translation of these (and similar texts), the role of translators often goes beyond that of interlingual mediators of messages and assumes unexpected functions. Firstly, I discuss…
Why translation studies matters
"Whether Translation Studies really matters is an important and challenging question which practitioners of translation and interpreting raise repeatedly. TS scholars, many of whom are translators and interpreters themselves, are not indifferent to it either. The twenty papers of this thematic volume, contributed by authors from various parts of Europe, from Brazil and from Israel, address it in a positive spirit. Some do so through direct critic…
Translational and cultural exchange between two cultures pushed to global periphery
Modes of contact among languages and cultures of smaller dissemination are worthy of study not only because they reveal the hegemonic weight of intermediary languages and cultures but also because they show how these cultures may choose to remain indifferent to each other for historical and political reasons. Slovene and Turkish are two prime examples which have had virtually no direct literary and cultural contacts. The papers included in this s…
Experience through translation — the translated experience
The Slovene understanding of Turkish culture is essentially created through indirect, translated contact. It was first expressed through traditional Slovene folk songs and stories, depicting the Ottoman Empire either as a threat or as a land of sensuality and opulence. During the time of Yugoslavia, perceptions of “the Turks” were influenced by the translated works of Bosnian authors, promoted by official policies aimed at creating “brotherhood a…
The Dictates of the Market. The Future of Profession of Translators and Interpreters in a Post-Socialist EU-Member State
The article outlines the changes of the profession of translators and interpreters, and the development \nof the translator and interpreter training at the university level in the Republic of Slovenia, one of \nthe post-socialist EU member states, in the last 35 years. It also provides an insight into the present \nand future status of the profession by surveying the average earnings of junior translators in the \nSlovene and Russian translation …
It’s so vital to learn Slovene”
Short-time migrants, who stay in the host country from one to 12 months, use mediation strategies including lingua francas, public-service interpreting and translation, translation technologies, intercomprehension, and learning the host country’s dominant language. The choices made by asylum seekers in Slovenia, a country of transit for the majority of asylum seekers, are analyzed on the basis of questionnaires answered by 127 current and former …
Do I want to learn a language spoken by two million people?”
Migrants’ intended length of stay influences their choices between using a lingua franca, language technology, ad-hoc interpreters and translators, intercomprehension, or learning the host country’s dominant language. To study this influence, data were collected through a questionnaire, semi-structured interviews, and a focus-group discussion from 15 long-term migrants (university language teachers) and eight mid-term migrants (teachers at two in…
Translation and diaspora
This article revisits Gideon Toury’s ( 1995 , 2012 ) definition of translation as a fact of the target culture by highlighting the transfer of cultural images through literary translation in the periodicals of a US diaspora in the interwar period between the US Immigration Act of 1924 and the beginning of World War II in 1939. I argue that literary translations in diaspora periodicals fulfilled different roles and were used for strengthening not …
Simulated role plays or field observation? Usability testing of a healthcare phrasebook
The aim of this article is (1) to report on a usability study on the acceptability of a multilingual phrasebook for healthcare providers and (2) to compare the effectiveness and the efficiency of two key usability research methods: simulated role play and field observation. The usability study focused on the phrasebook's acceptability (i.e., the extent to which the users consider it to be appropriate and serve its purpose), and consisted of two s…
Cultural consolidation through translation
The article deals with paraliterature in both senses of the term, as trivial literature and as a meta-literary form of literary criticism, and focuses, through a combination of bibliographical and documentary research and critical reading, on the role of translations of paraliterary texts in a literary periodical of a peripheral linguistic community in the period of cultural consolidation, i.e., in the Slovene linguistic community in the first ha…
Obscuring a translator in a translator museum
This article examines a rare example of a regional museum dedicated to a translator—the permanent Linhart Exhibition in the town of Radovljica, Slovenia—with the aim of exploring how the interplay between textual and visual elements in the exhibition (mis)represents Linhart's translatorial activity. The study begins with a critical literature review and a close reading of eight representative comprehensive histories of Slovene literature from the…
Ethics in Translation and Interpreting
Although the first documents addressing ethical questions in the form of codes of ethics emerged already in the 1950s and 1960s, the theoretical discourse on ethics of translation and interpreting only began to take shape in the latter part of the 20th century. The first notable theoretical works on the ethics of translation were published in French during the late 1980s and 1990s, authored by Antoine Berman and Anthony Pym. Ethical issues then s…
Political science (8 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (8 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Interpreter (3 works) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (3 works)