“Contribution to the Study of Plain Language” examines plain language as a linguistic and textual practice aimed at the immediate, easy, and effective understanding of information by the general public.
The study presents the terms “easy language” and “plain language,” highlights the differences between them, and places linguistic simplification within the broader European and American context. At the same time, it discusses the benefits of plain language in issues of accessibility, equality, social inclusion, transparency, and more effective communication with public services.
Focusing on Modern Greek and the language of Public Administration, the book examines features such as long-period sentences, archaic forms, ambiguity, the accumulation of generalizations, and administrative linguistic inflation. In the practical section, it presents examples of linguistic simplification in texts from Greek public services, combining linguistic analysis, theoretical framework, and applications.
