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Easy Language – plain language – easy language plus : balancing comprehensibility and acceptability

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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Series Title
Easy – Plain – Accessible, 3
Call Number
428.2 MAA e
Publisher
Berlin, Germany : Frank & Timme.,
Collation
301 p.
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
9783732992997
Classification
428.2
Content Type
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Media Type
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Carrier Type
-
Edition
Vol. 3
Subject(s)
Communication studies
Language
Translation & interpretation
Grammar, syntax & morphology
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