Studies on Language Norms in Context

Pandolfi, Elena Maria; Miecznikowski, Johanna; Christopher, Sabine Laura; Kamber, Alain

doi:10.3726/b10526

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Ayres-Bennett

2023

IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature

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In this chapter, I outline certain developments in work on standardization since the turn of this century that has challenged traditional thinking on modelling standardization. From the 2000s, there has been a proliferation of publications and approaches, whether focusing on the linguistic, social, cultural, educational, political or other dimension, with the result that this discussion is necessarily highly schematic. I consider how work is opening out beyond the National and the European, and examine the increasing interest in agents of standardization and standardization “from below”. Also growing in importance is research on restandardization and destandardization, viewed as symptomatic of the increasingly anti-authoritarian, individualistic and democratic ideology of late modernity.

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Ayres-Bennett

2023

IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature

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The challenge of multilingual ‘plain language’ in translation-mediated Swiss administrative communication

Felici

Griebel

2019

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Barrier-free communication should be an institutional priority when drafting administrative texts. These not only deal with legal content, but they often address the lay citizen and may provide general information on services and reforms or simply instruct on a specific procedure to be followed. Our study investigates Swiss insurance leaflets in three languages (French, German and Italian) and aims at evaluating language clarity on the basis of ‘plain language’ guidelines, thus also considering the translation variable. However, our preliminary results show that ‘plain communication’ is not always the case. We applied a quantitative and qualitative triangulation methodology: firstly, we measured readability with the help of readability indices; subsequently, we used computational tools to highlight common linguistic gaps whose quality was also explored manually by taking textual aspects into account.

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Studies on Language Norms in Context

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The challenge of multilingual ‘plain language’ in translation-mediated Swiss administrative communication

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