Christiane Maaß

Silvia Hansen-Schirra

Silvana Deilen

Sergio Hernández Garrido

Anke Tardel

This volume presents current research and practices in the field of Easy Language and accessible communication. The publication of this volume was inspired by two international events, namely the International Easy Language Day Conference (IELD), and the panel The Social Role of Language: Translation into Easy and Plain Languages at the IATIS conference. By bringing together findings from different corpus-driven, cognitive and automation approaches in accessible communication research and providing insights into current projects of the emerging field of accessible health communication, the volume captures the dynamic and rapidly evolving nature of the field.

Emerging Fields in Easy Language and Accessible Communication Research

Kristina Bedijs

This manual provides an extensive overview of the importance and use of Romance languages in the media, both in a diachronic and synchronic perspective. Its chapters discuss language in television and the new media, the language of advertising, or special cases such as translation platforms or subtitling. Separate chapters are dedicated to minority languages and smaller varieties such as Galician and Picard, and to methodological approaches such as linguistic discourse analysis and writing process research.

Manual of Romance Languages in the Media

Gudrun Held

On social media platforms - such as Facebook and Twitter, message boards, blogs, and commentaries - users interact as if they know each other personally. Malicious verbal behavior is found next to clapping and kissing emoticons, both indicative of users' relational work strategies. This book contains 17 papers that examine 'face work' in social media - theoretical reflections, as well as corpus-based studies - thus opening the way to rethink linguistic pragmatics in computer-mediated communication. (Series: Hildesheimer Contributions to Media Research / Hildesheimer Beitrage zur Medienforschung - Vol. 2) [Subject: Sociology, Media Studies, Communication, Computer Technology]

Face Work and Social Media

This volume presents new approaches in Easy Language research from three different perspectives: text perspective, user perspective and translation perspective. It explores the field of comprehensibility-enhanced varieties at different levels (Easy Language, Plain Language, Easy Language Plus). While all are possible solutions to foster communicative inclusion of people with disabilities, they have varying impacts with regard to their comprehensibility and acceptability. The papers in this volume provide insights into the current scientific activities and results of two research teams at the Universities of Hildesheim and Mainz and present innovative theoretical and empirical perspectives on Easy Language research. The approaches comprise studies on the cognitive processing of Easy Language, on Easy Language in multimodal and multicodal texts and different situational settings as well as translatological considerations on Easy Language translation and interpreting.

Easy Language Research: Text and User Perspectives

This book shows how accessible communication, and especially easy-to-understand languages, should be designed in order to become instruments of inclusion. It examines two well-established easy-to-understand varieties: Easy Language and Plain Language, and shows that they have complementary profiles with respect to four central qualities: comprehensibility, perceptibility, acceptability and stigmatisation potential. The book introduces Easy and Plain Language and provides an outline of their linguistic, sociological and legal profiles: What is the current legal framework of Easy and Plain Language? What do the texts look like? Who are the users? Which other groups are involved in the production and use of Easy and Plain Language offers? Which qualities are a hazard to acceptability and, thus, enhance their stigmatisation potential? The book also proposes another easy-to-understand variety: Easy Language Plus. This variety balances the four qualities and is modelled in the present book.

Balancing Comprehensibility and Acceptability

Easy Language – Plain Language – Easy Language Plus

Isabel Rink

Barrierefreie Kommunikation umfasst alle Maßnahmen zum Abbau von Hindernissen für die Verständigung in verschiedenen Situationen und Handlungsfeldern. Durch Behinderungen, Erkrankungen, unterschiedliche Bildungschancen oder einschneidende Lebensereignisse haben Menschen höchst unterschiedliche Bedarfe, wie Texte bzw. Kommunikate für sie aufbereitet sein müssen, um ihren individuellen Anforderungen und Zugangsvoraussetzungen zu entsprechen. In diesem Handbuch wird das Themenfeld Barrierefreie Kommunikation in interdisziplinärer Breite beleuchtet und kritisch reflektiert. Aktuelle Erkenntnisse, Lösungsvorschläge sowie Desiderate der Forschung stehen dabei neben Berichten von Praktiker(inne)n und Nutzer(inne)n, die Einblicke in ihren Umgang mit Barrierefreier Kommunikation gewähren und gegenwärtige und zukünftige Erfordernisse und Probleme aufzeigen.

Christiane Maaß

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