'Immigrants' as Recipients of Easy-to-Read in Spain

Autor/in	Becker, Lidia
Titel	'Immigrants' as Recipients of Easy-to-Read in Spain
Quelle	In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 41 (2020) 1, S.59-71 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-4632
DOI	10.1080/01434632.2019.1621874
Schlagwörter	Immigrants; Immigration; Intellectual Disability; Semantics; Discourse Analysis; Foreign Countries; Language Processing; Language Variation; Spanish; History; Political Influences; Computational Linguistics; Reading Comprehension; Guides; Newspapers; Web Sites; Language Attitudes; Social Bias; English; Readability; Spain; Europe + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Intellect; Disability; Disabilities; Verstand; Behinderung; Semantik; Diskursanalyse; Ausland; Sprachverarbeitung; Sprachenvielfalt; Spanisch; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Leseverstehen; Handbuch; Leitfaden; Newspaper; Zeitung; Web-Design; Sprachverhalten; English language; Englisch; Lesbarkeit; Spanien; Europa
Abstract	The paper provides an example of how immigration is constructed by receiving societies as a comprehension or language problem that requires special solutions. It focuses on the application of Easy-to-Read, a simplified register currently in expansion which addresses different groups of people with intellectual disabilities, to immigrants in Spain. Following a general introduction on the glottopolitical approach to migration processes and a historical overview of tendencies of discursive simplification in Europe and the Americas, the co-text of the term 'immigrants' in a corpus including drafting guides of Easy-to-Read, newspapers and websites of the supporters of this variety is analysed in the empirical part. Methods of semantic discourse analysis (semantic relations and prototype theory) allow to identify new meanings and categories that are constructed in the selected texts ('immigrant' as a co-hyponym of 'person with a disability'). (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01