Plain Language

Auteur

Stefano Rastelli teaches Psycholinguistics at the University of Pavia (Italy) where he directs the Laboratorio di Linguistica e Glottodidattica Sperimentale (LLEGS). He regularly publishes experimental research on syntax, second language acquisition, language usability and statistical learning.

Texte du rabat

Plain Language: A Psycholinguistic Approach employs principles from the field of psycholinguistics to explore factors that make a sentence or text easy or difficult to process by the cognitive mechanisms that support language processing, and describes how levels of difficulty might function within bureaucratic power structures.

Résumé
Plain Language: A Psycholinguistic Approach employs principles from the field of psycholinguistics to explore factors that make a sentence or text easy or difficult to process by the cognitive mechanisms that support language processing, and describes how levels of difficulty might function within bureaucratic power structures.

Contenu

Introduction

Chapter 1: Basic Notions

Chapter 2: A Closer Look at Plain Language: Motivations, Name, Origins and Rules

Chapter 3: Plain Language Myths

Chapter 4: Meaning of 'Plain' in Language Research

Chapter 5: A Little Difficult is Better

Chapter 6: Language Usability

Chapter 7: Psycholinguistics and Plain Language, Part One: Language Processing

Chapter 8: Psycholinguistics and Plain Language, Part Two: The Data

Chapter 9: Psycholinguistics and Plain Language, Part Three: A Reader's Memory

Chapter 10: The Syntactic Reader

Chapter 11: The Statistical Reader

Chapter 12: The Pragmatic Reader

Chapter 13: Making Spoken Language Plain: A Timed Crossmodal Forced-Choice Experiment

Chapter 14: Conclusion: Fifteen Points of Attention

References

Index