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Johnson, Sean Isamu.

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Uniting Plain Language, Cognitive Fluency, and Believability.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Uniting Plain Language, Cognitive Fluency, and Believability./
Author:	Johnson, Sean Isamu.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	79 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 81-12.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International81-12.
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27996234
ISBN:	9798641523941

Uniting Plain Language, Cognitive Fluency, and Believability.
Johnson, Sean Isamu.

Uniting Plain Language, Cognitive Fluency, and Believability. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 79 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 81-12.

Thesis (M.A.)--Hofstra University, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Cognitive scientists have demonstrated that it is possible to manipulate the cognitive fluency of a language processing task-or its difficulty or ease-to affect the believability of statements made in the task (e.g., Reber and Schwarz, 1999). In a separate line of interdisciplinary research on plain language-a movement that emphasizes audience comprehension-researchers have shown that certain linguistic constructions are easier for people to understand than others (e.g., Olson & Filby, 1972). The purpose of this study is to combine the insights from these two fields in order to address the question of whether using more cognitively fluent language, i.e., plain language, contributes to inflated judgments of believability. In an experiment, 98 participants were randomly assigned to one of two surveys in which they were asked to read statements and rate their believability on a scale of 0 to 100. Although there was an overall trend that indicated that plain language was more believable than non-plain language and three independent sample t-tests showed that there were significant effects within three of the plain language/non-plain language statement pairs, a 2x2 mixed ANOVA revealed that there was no significant main effect for plain language vs. non-plain language overall. If the trends observed in this study reflect a real effect, then they would support the theory that any factor that decreases the cognitive fluency of language negatively affects the believability of propositions made in the language.

ISBN: 9798641523941Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.
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Believability

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