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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.
List of contents
IntroductionChapter 1: Basic NotionsChapter 2: A Closer Look at Plain Language: Motivations, Name, Origins and RulesChapter 3: Plain Language MythsChapter 4: Meaning of 'Plain' in Language ResearchChapter 5: A Little Difficult is BetterChapter 6: Language UsabilityChapter 7: Psycholinguistics and Plain Language, Part One: Language ProcessingChapter 8: Psycholinguistics and Plain Language, Part Two: The DataChapter 9: Psycholinguistics and Plain Language, Part Three: A Reader's MemoryChapter 10: The Syntactic ReaderChapter 11: The Statistical ReaderChapter 12: The Pragmatic ReaderChapter 13: Making Spoken Language Plain: A Timed Crossmodal Forced-Choice Experiment Chapter 14: Conclusion: Fifteen Points of AttentionReferencesIndex
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
