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Changing with the Times: The Evolution of Plain Language in the Legal Sphere
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2015 As is well known, the Plain language movement has been influential in a number of areas of public life over the last few decades. Within the legal sphere it has raised general awareness concerning the need to make legal matters and legal documents more ...
Williams, Christopher
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Canadian Medical Education Journal, 2018 This brief report aims to highlight the impact of globalization – the international movement of goods, people, and ideas – on patient-provider communication in medical training and practice, and how the implementation of plain language communication ...
Fiona Warde +5 more
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Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2017 Clear research questionnaires ultimately help to ensure the reliability and comparability of the data that they gather (Fowler 1992; Lenzner 2012; Moroney and Cameron 2016).
Lotz, Susan
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Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2021 The level of communicativeness of official letters in the field of tax law leaves much to be desired. The article concerns the consequences of the application of “Language Relief” in the practice of applying tax law by the National Revenue Administration.
Woltanowski Piotr
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Plain Language Assessment of Statutes [PDF]
, 2020 Legislative drafters use plain language drafting techniques to increase the readability of statutes in several Anglo-American jurisdictions. Existing readability metrics, such as Flesch-Kincaid, however, are a poor proxy for how effectively drafters incorporate these guidelines.
Wolfgang Alschner +3 more
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Lessons Learned from Developing Plain Language Summaries of Research Studies
Health Literacy Research and Practice, 2021 Background: Plain language translation may facilitate the public's ability to understand and use results of scientific research. Brief description of activity: This article describes the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute's (PCORI) approach to ...
Maureen Maurer +5 more
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Plain language and assessment of plain language
International Journal of Private Law, 2011 Plain language is a valuable tool that can be applied in order to proactively promote procedural fairness in the law of contract. It also places a consumer in a better position to protect his own interests. In most legal systems, the use of plain language is compulsory, owing to the focus on transparency and openness and the requirements of procedural ...
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Vom Drehbuch zur Einfachen Sprache – Intralingualer Transfer der Emotionalität am Beispiel der Tragikomödie „Good Bye, Lenin!“ [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in WrocławThis article explores the means of expressing emotionality and their intralingual transfer using the example of the renowned German tragicomedy “Good Bye, Lenin!” (2003) by Wolfgang Becker.
Pavlína Soušková
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Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2021 The article explores the features of intralingual translation of texts into easy and plain languages, identifying the necessary competencies of specialists in this field, and identifying opportunities for training translators in easy and plain ...
Natalya Nechaeva +2 more
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Teaching plain language to medical students: improving communication with disadvantaged patients
BMC Medical Education, 2021 Background Low health literacy underpins health inequality and leads to poor adherence to medical care and higher risk of adverse events and rehospitalization.
Doron Sagi +4 more
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