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Publication details [#30672]

Ravelli, L.J. 1996. Making language accessible: Successful text writing for museum visitors. Linguistics and Education 8 (4) : 367–387.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language for special purposes | text, comprehension of | text, production of | writing

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0898-5898

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper describes the background and the nature of a linguistic intervention project of the Australian Museum in Sydney, envisaging to produce linguistically-informed guidelines for exhibition texts, and its results in terms of visitor comprehension.