Stefano Rastelli

Plain Language (eBook, ePUB)

A Psycholinguistic Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040155219
• Artikelnr.: 72283148

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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