Recomendations on plain language in spanish in the legal-administrative field: analysis and classification

The impact of the introduction of plain language into Spanish administration has been lees acknowledged than in the administrations of other countries. However, various initiatives have been carried out to improve the clarity of legal-administrative texts and, in addition, there are different source...

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Autores: Cunha Fanego, Iria Da, Escobar Álvarez, Mª Ángeles
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Repositorio:e-spacio. Repositorio Institucional de la UNED
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:e-spacio.uned.es:20.500.14468/11975
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/11975
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:lenguaje claro
ámbito jurídico-administrativo
discurso
morfosintaxis
léxico
plain language
legal-administrative field
discourse
morphosyntax
lexicon
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Sumario:The impact of the introduction of plain language into Spanish administration has been lees acknowledged than in the administrations of other countries. However, various initiatives have been carried out to improve the clarity of legal-administrative texts and, in addition, there are different sources that offer recommendations for writing these kinds of texts in plain language. The aim of this work is to analyse the recommendations on written plain language in Spanish that are collected in the most relevant and current sources on the subject, to later classify them according to the language level to which they refer. Specifically, the discourse, morphosyntactic and lexical levels are considered. Based on this analysis and classification, a list of the most frequent and, therefore, most relevant, plain language recommendations in Spanish is offered, taking the aforementioned three language levels into account