The "wrong direction"? Translating into English as a foreign language in Slovakia

Ličko, Roman, 1971-

The "wrong direction"? Translating into English as a foreign language in Slovakia / Roman Ličko. -- This paper deals with translation into English as a foreign language in Slovakia. It explores traditional and recent views on the subject, looks at directionality issues in certain European countries, and presents the analysis of a survey conducted among Slovak translators of English in 2012. It argues that in Slovakia, a country with one of the lesser-used national languages in Europe, translation into English as a foreign language is very common. All but a few English translators in the country work into English as a foreign language. They translate inversely almost as often as they do directly, and they rarely regard this practice as unprofessional

In From theory to practice 2013 : proceedings of the fifth international conference on anglophone studies, September 5-6, 2013, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic Jelínková, Ema. -- Zlín : Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně, 2015. -- 304 s.. -- ISBN ISBN 978-80-7454-450-7. -- Pp. 131-140