Plain Language: A Psycholinguistic Approach - Paperback

by Stefano Rastelli (Author)

Plain Language: A Psycholinguistic Approach employs principles from the field of psycholinguistics to explore factors that make a sentence or text easy or difficult to process by the cognitive mechanisms that support language processing, and describes how levels of difficulty might function within bureaucratic power structures.

Author Biography

Stefano Rastelli teaches Psycholinguistics at the University of Pavia (Italy) where he directs the Laboratorio di Linguistica e Glottodidattica Sperimentale (LLEGS). He regularly publishes experimental research on syntax, second language acquisition, language usability and statistical learning.