Introduction
Chapter 1: Basic Notions
Chapter 2: A Closer Look at Plain Language: Motivations, Name, Origins and Rules
Chapter 3: Plain Language Myths
Chapter 4: Meaning of ‘Plain’ in Language Research
Chapter 5: A Little Difficult is Better
Chapter 6: Language Usability
Chapter 7: Psycholinguistics and Plain Language, Part One: Language Processing
Chapter 8: Psycholinguistics and Plain Language, Part Two: The Data
Chapter 9: Psycholinguistics and Plain Language, Part Three: A Reader’s Memory
Chapter 10: The Syntactic Reader
Chapter 11: The Statistical Reader
Chapter 12: The Pragmatic Reader
Chapter 13: Making Spoken Language Plain: A Timed Crossmodal Forced-Choice Experiment
Chapter 14: Conclusion: Fifteen Points of Attention
References
Index
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.
