Easy Language – Plain Language – Easy Language Plus
Subtitle: Balancing Comprehensibility and Acceptability
Publisher: Frank & Timme
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Berlin
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Educational purpose qualifiers; Grammar, syntax & morphology; Translation & interpretation; Communication studies; Educational strategies & policy; Semantics, discourse analysis
Description: This book shows how accessible communication, and especially easy-to-understand languages, should be designed in order to become instruments of inclusion. It examines two well-established easy-to-understand varieties: Easy Language and Plain Language, and shows that they have complementary profiles with respect to four central qualities: comprehensibility, perceptibility, acceptability and stigmatisation potential. The book introduces Easy and Plain Language and provides an outline of their linguistic, sociological and legal profiles: What is the current legal framework of Easy and Plain Language? What do the texts look like? Who are the users? Which other groups are involved in the production and use of Easy and Plain Language offers? Which qualities are a hazard to acceptability and, thus, enhance their stigmatisation potential? The book also proposes another easy-to-understand variety: Easy Language Plus. This variety balances the four qualities and is modelled in the present book.
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