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Evaluating the Quality of Easy and Plain German from an Addressee-oriented Perspective

DEPARTMENT:

Centre for Translation;Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies

CONYTRIBUTOR / SPEAKER:

HANSEN-SCHIRRA, Silvia

RELEASE DATE:

2022

LENGTH:

111 Minutes

VIDEO TYPE:

Scholarly Talks

In the countries that have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disability (UN CRPD), access to information for people with disabilities has become an important issue. Depending on the different countries, Easy or Plain Language is the means of choice to improve the readability and comprehensibility of texts. This way, content becomes accessible not only to people with disabilities, but also to people who have no access to the original standard or expert texts for other reason than disability, like migration or insufficient educational opportunities.

There are, however, several research gaps: For Easy Language, it is not clear whether the existing sets of rules can be applied without losing functional adequacy of the reformulations (legal content must, for instance, be checked for legal validity). Plain Language is problematic since there are no universally applicable language rules or standards. For both varieties, it is not clear whether the reduction of textual complexity also leads to reduced processing effort and how textual quality can be measured.

In order to take the heterogeneous target groups into account when speaking about the quality of the different language varieties, we adopt a psycholinguistic position and define quality as successful perception and reception from a recipient's perspective. This enables us to focus on the target groups' demands which in turn are dependent on their specific language barriers. We measure reading and comprehension processes by applying a multi-method approach involving eyetracking and comprehensibility tests. The findings differentiate perception and reception processes in terms of Easy and Plain Language on the one hand and with respect to specific target groups on the other. This leads to a dynamic concept of quality and processing effort depending on the target groups' demands.

Evaluating the Quality of Easy and Plain German from an Addressee-oriented Perspective

部門:

翻譯學研究中心;翻譯、傳譯及跨文化研究系

講者:

HANSEN-SCHIRRA, Silvia

發佈日期:

2022

影片長度:

111 分鐘

影片類型:

學術論壇

Evaluating the Quality of Easy and Plain German from an Addressee-oriented Perspective

部门:

翻译学研究中心;翻译、传译及跨文化研究系

讲者:

HANSEN-SCHIRRA, Silvia

发布日期:

2022

影片长度:

111 分钟

影片类型:

学术论坛

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