Open AccessProsty język w komunikacji prawniczej – okiem redaktora językowego
Author(s) -
Justyna Zandberg-Malec
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
poznańskie studia polonistyczne. seria językoznawcza
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2450-4939
pISSN - 1233-8672
DOI - 10.14746/pspsj.2021.28.1.13
Subject(s) - plain english , linguistics , plain language , order (exchange) , intelligibility (philosophy) , computer science , philosophy , epistemology , finance , economics
The article discusses the practical use of plain language rules in editing law-related texts. The author believes that it is possible and worth the effort to write legal texts in accordance with the rules of plain language, i.e. with the expected reader in mind, giving examples of rewritten sentences taken from the articles for an online law portal. The author divides the processes in terms of ‘structural order’ and ‘linguistic order’ and shows that even cosmetic editing in the spirit of plain language, without affecting the text’s structure, improves its intelligibility.