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

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  • Author(s): Becker, Lidia
  • Language:
    English
  • Source:
    Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 2020 41(1):59-71.
  • Publication Date:
    2020
  • Document Type:
    Journal Articles
    Reports - Descriptive
  • Additional Information
    • Availability:
      Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • Source:
      13
    • Subject Terms:
      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
    • Subject Terms:
      Spain; Europe
    • Accession Number:
      10.1080/01434632.2019.1621874
    • ISSN:
      0143-4632
    • 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').
    • Abstract:
      As Provided
    • Publication Date:
      2020
    • Accession Number:
      EJ1240796