European Journal of Social and Human Sciences

67-76

Authors: Edlira Gjoni

Societies are drifting towards conditions of inequality, poverty and exploitation because of the group to which they belong. In Albania, the risks of the deepening split between the groups and the increasing need for social assistance is now clearer than ever. The actors involved in social work, in their efforts to affirm the need and the professional identity of social work, encounter some rather big challenges. These efforts are supported to a very limited extent by external actors and face difficulties in reaching their target group. The need for social work policies and action form a chain of messages which goes through a communication channel. In this channel, on the way from sender to receiver, the message itself seems to lose power and importance. Why? Among many answers, one seems to prevail: The Media negligence. Media representation of social work appears to be the weakest link in the communication chain from policy makers to those who benefit from the social work system. And it requires stronger attention and research on how to make media an ally of social work support, rather than an obstacle for the profession, which is also the focus of this paper.

82-88

Authors: Zuzana Tuhárska

The aim of the article is to present possibilities of the corpus linguistics methods as a means of increasing the quality of the output of the translation process in the context of legal translation. Firstly, the specifications of a legal text as a text type in the context of translation will be presented; secondly, the competences necessary to master legal translation will be explained; thirdly, the benefits provided by the corpus analysis method will be summarized. Based on selected empirical data obtained through the corpus analysis, the potential of the corpus analysis methods will be illustrated in practice in order to explain how it can be used to increase the quality of the translation process and its product.