LINGUISTIC COMPLEXITY AND TEXT COMPREHENSION - Readability lssues Reconsidered by Davison and Green

Abstract

The research presented by Davison and Green in LINGUISTICCOMPLEXITY AND TEXT COMPREHENSION addresses some of the mainissues on readability, linguistic complexity and language understanding. The book in divided into ten chapters and an Introduction. In the introduction the editors justify the appraisal of readability issues, summarize the content of the papers and put them in context. The main pointsdiscussed in this collection of ten articles are thedefinition and assumptions underlying formulas, problems andweaknesses of readability formulas, and new insights that recent research in linguistics, in the psychology of language and theories of learning have brought to theconcept of language complexity, to language understandingand reading comprehension. The review will follow thethematic order in which the articles appear in the book.