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Leichte Sprache, Einfache Sprache, Leichte Sprache Plus. Aktuelle Entwicklungen von DIN bis KI
Chris Maaß
2026
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This book offers a systematic overview of Leichte Sprache (Easy Language), Einfache Sprache (Plain Language), and Leichte Sprache Plus as distinct yet functionally complementary responses to communicative barriers. At its core lies the tension between comprehensibility and acceptability: Leichte Sprache emerges as a highly visible and at times stigmatizing format; Einfache Sprache as a socially unmarked variety that, for many addressees, nevertheless provides insufficient cognitive relief; and Leichte Sprache Plus as an approach that balances the “empty middle” between the two. The book examines the standardization processes surrounding Easy and Plain Language, demonstrating how standards and specifications both institutionalize the field and simultaneously narrow the definition of target groups. It traces how barriers can be removed from texts, incorporates multimodal and oral formats, and identifies AI-supported tools as a watershed development: while they accelerate the production of texts optimized for comprehensibility, they also require rigorous quality assurance and raise new ethical questions.
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Keywords
- Accessibility
- Accessible Communication
- AI
- AI tools
- artificial intelligence
- comprehensibility
- DIN standards (German Institute for Standardization)
- easy language
- Easy Language Plus
- Language varieties
- Optimization of comprehensibility
- Perceivability
- plain language
- Quality assurance
- specifications
- Standardization
- standardization processes
- Standards
- Target audiences
- thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFB Sociolinguistics
- thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
- thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy::JNFK Educational strategies and policy: inclusion
- thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDD Scientific standards, measurement etc
- thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UY Computer science::UYQ Artificial intelligence
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DOI: 10.57088/978-3-7329-8681-1Editions