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Plain language in history museums: a project with wall information

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dc.contributor.authorMartins, Cláudia
dc.contributor.authorFreitas, Ingrid Souza
dc.contributor.authorAlmeida, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorRoberto, Maria Teresa
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-17T14:50:34Z
dc.date.available2022-01-17T14:50:34Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThe UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has become a watershed for human rights. It enshrines “full and equal enjoyment” for all people with disabilities, namely participation in cultural life (cf. art. 30) which requires the development of accessibility services that may cater for the needs and requirements of specific groups. Among these services, we highlight easy/ plain language as a means to include people with cognitive impairments, or anyone “with communication impairments” (Hansen-Schirra & Maaß, 2020), by both improving “readability and comprehensibility” (ibidem). This is particularly important in cultural venues, e.g. museums, since it can be used by a myriad of visitors, such as children, the elderly, people with lower literacy or simply with less experience going to museums, and people with hearing impairment. However, such strategies may be regarded with suspicion for challenging long-held suppositions that need to be deconstructed by these institutions. Bearing this in mind, we wish to report on a project conducted in a Portuguese museum in Bragança (northeast of Portugal), which goes by the name of Abbott of Baçal Museum. For this history museum, we were asked to adapt 16 texts that would stand as wall information in each of the museum rooms, i.e. adapt them into easy/ plain language. Therefore, our paper aims not only at conducting a contrastive analysis between the original text handed in by the institution and the outcome of the “simplification” process, but also at reflecting on the intralingual translation strategies used to reach quality texts.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationMartins, Cláudia; Freitas, Ingrid; Almeida, Sarah; Roberto, Maria Teresa (2021). Plain language in history museums: a project with wall information. In 7th IATIS Conference: Book of Abstracts. Barcelonapt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10198/24684
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherIATISpt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectPersons with disabilitiespt_PT
dc.subjectAccessibilitypt_PT
dc.subjectMuseumspt_PT
dc.subjectEasypt_PT
dc.subjectIntralingual strategiespt_PT
dc.titlePlain language in history museums: a project with wall informationpt_PT
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oaire.citation.conferencePlaceBarcelonapt_PT
oaire.citation.endPage337pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage337pt_PT
oaire.citation.title7th IATIS Conference: Book of Abstractspt_PT
person.familyNameMartins
person.givenNameCláudia
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person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-3388-2340
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