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In line with the work conducted in simplifying administrative documents (Clerc and Kavanagh 2006; Clerc 2019; Vecchiato 2021), this article questions...

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The article "La simplification de document : de la mise en mots à la mise en scène graphique et rédactionnelle" makes a valuable contribution to the o...

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Maria Isabel Rivas Ginel, Sarah Theroine

Getting Gender Right in Video Games, Simplifying for Inclusivity

Gender

The video game industry’s meteoric rise since its birth in the 1970s has steadily increased the demand for professional localisers capable of dealing...

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This article promises a timely and highly relevant contribution to the fields of localization studies and computational linguistics, addressing the in...

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Valentina Crestani

Semplificazione nei musei in <em>Leichte Sprache</em> tedesca e in <em>linguaggio facile</em> italiano

Linguistics

After offering a theoretical introduction to the principles of German Easy Language (“Leichte Sprache”) and Italian Easy Language (“linguaggio facile”...

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This article presents a highly relevant and timely investigation into the application of simplified language principles, specifically German *Leichte...

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Iris Jammernegg

Komplexe Sachverhalte erfolgreich kommunizieren: eine Studie zur vereinfachten Darstellung des Themas Wasserstoff im deutschen Energiewendediskurs, mit besonderem Blick auf Leichte Sprache und Multimodalität

Communication

This article investigates on one hand the interrelationship between simplification, the need for comprehensibility and the communication goals pursued...

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This article proposes a timely and highly relevant investigation into the complex interplay of simplification, comprehensibility, and sender-specific...

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Lucia Cinato

Tradurre un corpus di memoria storico-biografica. Strategie di semplificazione e adattamento per il pubblico italiano

Linguistics

This article presents the German-Italian translation of the FGOP corpus Fluchtgeschichten aus Ostpreußen (refugee stories from Eastern Prussia), which...

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This article addresses a highly relevant and timely topic in both translation studies and public history: the translation of historical-biographical m...

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Eleonora Fois

When Translation Meets Newswriting: Simplification in Translated Quotations

Communication

Simplification is one of the translation universals (Baker 1996) and it is often equated with reduced sentence length and lexical complexity. This imp...

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This contribution proposes a timely and insightful investigation into the complex intersection of translation universals, journalistic newswriting pra...

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Kris Peeters

Simplification et poétique de la retraduction : Laclos, Joyce

Linguistics

In translation studies, the notion of “simplification” is as capricious as it is frequent. This article explores its different meanings, in subfields...

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This article addresses the often-discussed yet elusive notion of "simplification" within translation studies, undertaking a comprehensive exploration...

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Nicolas Froeliger

Le dernier refuge des gens compliqués : de l’intérêt des chiffres et des mathématiques en traduction

Linguistics

Grounded in both the works of cognitive sciences scholars like Kahneman and Pinker and, above all, in real-life examples, this contribution strives to...

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This contribution presents a highly engaging and counter-intuitive argument concerning the role of mathematical reasoning in translation, especially w...

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Sara Vecchiato, Sonia Gerolimich, Iris Jammernegg, Fabio Regattin, Deborah Saidero

Introduction: Back to Basics

Communication

This monographic volume is dedicated to the notion of simplicity, simplification and related notions therein. The first section considers simplificati...

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The title "Introduction: Back to Basics" effectively signals this monographic volume's intent to delve into the fundamental, yet often complex, notion...

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This study effectively investigates the prevalence and significant predictors of Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) among office employees within a fabricat...