“Plain Language: New perspectives and recent outcomes in European and International arena”.

Abstract

This EJLR issue on “Plain Language: New perspectives and recent outcomes in European and International arena” draws its plain language reform data from the United Kingdom, Italy, the European Union, Australia, Pakistan, and the international context. The focus of investigation is centrally on the analysis of discourse (very broadly construed to include lexico-grammatical analyses as well as generic and textual analyses) but with the analyses cited in particular contexts (legal, national, and international). These issues are examined in a more detailed form in the contributions to this volume, which focus on the legal, linguistic, and cultural aspects of plain language discourse in different European and non-Euro‐ pean countries. In order to highlight the transformations and/or adaptations of legal texts in terms of plain language reform, the investigation of textual and phe‐ nomena has been conducted taking into account the cross-cultural traits.