Research questions, corpus description, and methodology

The aim of the present book is the analysis of the texts described in Section 1.3, i.e., the layperson summaries of clinical trials. While other text types belonging to expert-lay communication in the medical field, like package leaflets, brochures, and informed consents have been frequently examined, both from a linguistic and translational perspective (cf. for instance Mentrup 1982; Eckkrammer 1998; Lyba 2001; Rovere 2001; Müller 2009; Leunikava 2011; Puato 2012; Giumelli 2013; Orletti & Iovino 2018), no such studies on the layperson summaries exist to date, due to their recent introduction.