Tassa di soggiorno or tassa turistica? : terminological challenges in Italian translations in the bilingual municipalities of Slovenian Istria

Lenassi, Nives (author), Kompara Lukančič, Mojca (author), Paolucci, Sandro (author)

This article addresses bilingualism in Slovenian Istria, where both Slovenian and Italian are official languages, and it examines translations of administrative texts from the websites of four bilingual municipalities: Ankaran, Koper, Izola, and Piran. The study briefly reviews prior analyses whose findings served as the foundation for this research, and it outlines characteristic and widely used full-form lexical units as well as acronyms and abbreviations in normative and informative bilingual texts. It then discusses problems in terminological uniformity, proposing appropriate translation strategies to provide coherent use of terminology as well as clearer texts.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Italian, translation strategies, terminological uniformity, acronym, abbreviation, corpora
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business; FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 247-262
• Numbering: Letn. 34, št. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-170613
• UDC: 811.131.1
• ISSN on article: 1408-5348
• DOI: 10.19233/ASHS.2024.17
• COBISS.SI-ID: 204242435
• Publication date in RUL: 10.07.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Annales : anali za istrske in mediteranske študije, Series historia et sociologia
• Shortened title: Ann, Ser. hist. sociol.
• Publisher: Zgodovinsko društvo za južno Primorsko, Societá storica del Litorale, Zgodovinsko društvo za južno Primorsko, = Societá storica del Litorale, Zgodovinsko društvo za južno Primorsko, = Societá storica del Litorale, Znanstveno raziskovalno središče Republike Slovenije, = Centro di ricerche scientifiche della Repubblica di Slovenia, Zgodovinsko društvo za južno Primorsko, Univerza na Primorskem, Znanstvenoraziskovalno središče, Zgodovinsko društvo za južno Primorsko, = Societá storica del Litorale, Zgodovinsko društvo za južno Primorsko, = Societá storica del Litorale, Inštitut IRRIS za raziskave, razvoj in strategije družbe, kulture in okolja, = Istituto IRRIS di ricerca, sviluppo e strategie della societa, cultura e ambiente
• ISSN: 1408-5348
• COBISS.SI-ID: 71952128

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• License: CC BY-NC 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
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Secondary language

• Language: Italian
• Title: Tassa di soggiorno o tassa turistica? : sfide terminologiche nella traduzione in italiano nei comuni bilingui dell’Istria slovena