Easy and plain languages as special cases of linguistic tailoring and standard language varieties

Leskelä, Leealaura; Mustajoki, Arto; Piehl, Aino

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“…Selkokielisyyden tarve kriisiviestinnässä on tunnistettu ja tunnustettu, mikä saattaa parantaa kielimuodon saavutettavuutta asenteiden tasolla ja osaltaan vähentää mahdollista stigmaa, joka voi kummuta suhtautumisesta selkokielen ensisijaisiin kohderyhmiin ja saattaa marginalisoida kielellistä tukea tarvitsevia (esim. Maaβ 2020: 209; myös Leskelä, Mustajoki & Piehl 2022). Suhtautumisessa selkoviestintään näkyy myös kulttuurisia eroja, mikä johtuu osittain käsityksistä selkokielisyydestä sekä selkokielen ja selkeän yleiskielen eroista.…”

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Selkokielellä kriisiä rakentamassa: koronadiskurssit selkomediassa ja tukijärjestöjen viestinnässä

Virtanen,

Kulkki-Nieminen

2023

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In this article, we consider a fundamental but so far little-investigated area of crisis communication: Easy Language journalism and public communication. Specifically, we focus on Easy Finnish material related to the Covid-19 pandemic. By adopting a Discourse Analytic perspective, we look at the ways in which the pandemic is constructed as a crisis across genres and ideological discourses operating in the overall ecology of Finnish Easy Language mass communication. As a result, we identify and describe four discourses that are foregrounded in our data: responsibility discourse, equality discourse, trust discourse and coping discourse. Our results highlight the importance of Easy Language communication in supporting the social inclusion of its target groups during a time of global crisis further severed by the so-called infodemic. The data covers the years 2020 and 2021 and includes material from the media and third-sector organizations.

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Selkokielellä kriisiä rakentamassa: koronadiskurssit selkomediassa ja tukijärjestöjen viestinnässä

Virtanen,

Kulkki-Nieminen

2023

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“…Easy and Plain Language are tailored languages (Leskelä et al, 2022) often aimed at a specific audience, such as people with learning disabilities, children, or second language learners. Easy Language is even considered to be a rule-based variety that reverts to purposeful language planning and shows similarities with controlled languages (Maaß, 2020).…”

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A Quantitative Study of Simplification Strategies in Adapted Texts for L2 Learners of Russian

Dmitrieva¹,

Laposhina²,

Lebedeva³

2021

Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies

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Nowadays there has been a growing interest in the topic of Russian text adaptation, both in theoretical aspects of intralingual translation into Simple and Plain Russian, and in practical tasks like automatic text simplification. Therefore, it is important to study the characteristics that make an adapted text more accessible. In this paper, we aim to investigate the strategies that human experts employ when simplifying texts, particularly when the texts are being adapted for learners of Russian as a foreign language. The main data source for this research is the RuAdapt parallel corpus, which consists of Russian literature texts adapted for the learners of RaaFL and the original versions of these texts. We study the changes that occur during the adaptation process on lexical, morphological, and syntax level, and compare them to the methods usually described in methodological recommendations for teaching RaaFL.

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Pragmatics and cognition in Easy Language

Fuchs

2024

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A core area of pragmatics is conversational implicatures, where speakers imply a meaning that is not part of what is literally said. Not all people have the ability to easily understand such common (implicit) forms of communication. For these people, Easy Language has been developed, i.e. a form of barrier-free communication with substantially simplified syntax and lexis. Moreover, Easy Language is based on the principle of maximum explicitness. However, the heterogeneous target groups and the different types of implicature have not been systematically taken into account. Therefore, this article is the first to take an in-depth look at conversational implicatures in Easy Language. It shows that a universal principle of maximum explicitness for Easy Language is too short-sighted. Instead, the principle of explicitness must be considered in relation to the different target groups and the types of implicature. The article provides an impulse for further (empirical) research in this emerging field.

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Easy and plain languages as special cases of linguistic tailoring and standard language varieties

Cited by 4 publications

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Selkokielellä kriisiä rakentamassa: koronadiskurssit selkomediassa ja tukijärjestöjen viestinnässä

Selkokielellä kriisiä rakentamassa: koronadiskurssit selkomediassa ja tukijärjestöjen viestinnässä

A Quantitative Study of Simplification Strategies in Adapted Texts for L2 Learners of Russian

Pragmatics and cognition in Easy Language

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