Popular – Educational Texts in Press For Children and Making Technical Lexicon Understandable
Popular – Educational Texts in Press For Children and Making Technical Lexicon Understandable

Summary/Abstract: The text that brings professional content is difficult for a child's addressee. The aim of this article is to find out if the editorial staff of children's magazines publish texts with professional content. We conducted the analysis on a sample of 106 European and some non-European magazines. As an example, we used a comparison with magazines for children in one country – the Slovak Republic. By quantitative and qualitative analysis, we found that approximately two-thirds of children's magazines publish texts with professional content in the form of popular-educational articles adapted to the age of the recipients. The less known technical terms are making understandable to the readers implementing various approaches. One of them prefers the Slovak term to its foreign synonym and/or internationalism. Differently to other subsystems of press, the explanation of the foreign term by one sentence or its part is less frequent. Technical terms are more frequently explained by more sentences, i.e., descriptively. There is another interesting approach to make the technical terms understandable: usage of non-verbal synonyms – pictures, drawings and photographs. Being repeatedly used, the technical term becomes part of the reader´s vocabulary.

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