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Organizations and writers striving to use plain language could benefit from evidence-based pieces of writing advice. At present, recommendations for producing comprehensible texts are often based on experience with the target group and/or common-sense logic, while previous effect studies have shown that applying such recommendations does not necessarily improve texts. In this paper we show the complexity of translating research results into evidence-based advice for comprehensible writing by discussing three dilemmas. First, we discuss the selection of a reliable evidence base, with a focus on the selection of measures that objectively reflect comprehension. Second, we discuss the generalizability of research results to types of texts, tasks, modalities, and readers other than the ones actually studied. Third, we address the complexity of turning conflicting results and subtle interaction effects into valid and nuanced but still comprehensible and applicable recommendations. We will argue that, due to its complexity, this ‘translation' needs to be made by linguists instead of laymen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Respondent Gert De Sutter plaatst mijn onderzoek in een rijtje klinkende namen (Diessel, Bresnan, Arnold). Eervol, maar tegelijkertijd plaatst hij een voorbehoud bij mijn conclusies. Graag maak ik van de gelegenheid gebruik om mij te verweren tegen de drie centrale kritiekpunten in zijn respons: 1) mijn (ontbrekende) definitie van de term discourse marker, 2) de wijze van sampling in mijn corpusonderzoek en 3) het nut en de noodzaak van diachroon onderzoek voor het blootleggen van vorm-betekenis-relaties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sentential adverbs often show variation in their positioning. Such variation is claimed to reflect form-function interactions. This paper presents a case study of Dutch dus 'so' that sheds more light on such interactions. Dus-fragments from the 13th, 16th, and 20th century were analyzed to find out whether any meaning changes and syntactic developments occurred, and whether form-function interactions could be found. Results indicate that dus started at the propositional level, serving as an anaphor meaning 'thus/in that way', then developed the textual function of causal connective and finally gained an interpersonal function as a discourse marker signaling information status. Several form-function relations were found: in the 16th century categorical status distinguished between anaphoric and connective use; in the 20th century the position of dus could be related to the accessibility of the information in the dus-clause. It appears that the form-function interactions can be seen as probabilistic "rules" that are often not one-to-one, but that are nevertheless frequently exploited by language users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Rheumatic conditions are characterized by pain and stiffness in the joints and muscles that can lead to functional disabilities in daily life. In addition, patients frequently report symptoms of fatigue, sleep disturbances, and heightened levels of anxiety and depression. Treatments for rheumatic conditions include psychological interventions, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), and exercise training. These interventions are illustrated in this study by three common rheumatic conditions, namely rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and fibromyalgia. Exercise training is often prescribed for these rheumatic conditions and is particularly effective in diminishing disability in daily life, for example in osteoarthritis. CBT appears to be effective in diminishing physical and psychological complaints, such as in rheumatoid arthritis. Fibromyalgia is often treated with a combination of CBT and exercise training. However, studies clearly suggest that treatment outcomes can be improved by taking into account the individual variation of patients. Selecting patients at risk and offering them an intervention tailored to their main cognitive-behavioral factors in an early stage has yielded promising results for rheumatoid arthritis and is currently also being applied to patients with other rheumatologic conditions to improve the results of psychological interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examined the factor structure of the Illness Cognition Questionnaire (ICQ) in three samples: chronic pain (CP), chronic fatigue (CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM). Former research in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis indicated a three-factor structure (helplessness, acceptance and perceived benefits). For 449 Flemish CP-patients, 296 Flemish CFS-patients and 372 Dutch FM-patients, complete data on the ICQ were available. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed, as well as a multi-group analysis to assess the stability of the factor structure in these three patient groups. Finally, norms were calculated. The three-factor structure was confirmed in CP, CFS and FM. Moreover, the three-factor model can be considered as invariant across the three samples. An analysis of variance indicated a significant difference in ICQ-scores between the three samples. Therefore, separate norms were calculated for the three different chronic conditions. The Illness Cognition Questionnaire seems to be a valid instrument to assess the proposed generic illness cognitions (helplessness, acceptance and perceived benefits) in patients with CP, CFS and FM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The development of a multidimensional health status inventory for chronic skin diseases is described that includes both generic and skin-specific scales. The skin-specific part assesses dimensions of physical functioning, more specifically skin status, physical symptoms of itch, pain and fatigue and scratching responses as well as disease-specific stressors of stigmatization. The generic part gauges dimensions of psychological functioning, disease-related impact scales, illness cognitions and social support by means of existing scales validated for other chronic diseases. Reliability and validity of the questionnaire were studied in patients with psoriasis and atopic dermatitis. The scales of the questionnaires showed high internal reliability and test-retest reliability and satisfying convergent validity in both patient groups. Sensitivity to change was demonstrated for both dermatological and cognitive-behavioural itching treatment. The overall highly satisfying results for reliability and validity support the usefulness and applicability of the questionnaire for different chronic skin diseases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The main question in this paper is whether increasing complexity can explain the sequence in which two-to-six-year-old Dutch children acquire connectives. Because children have to learn both the conceptual relations that can hold between sentences and the linguistic markers of these relations, complexity is operationalized here in terms of conceptual and grammatical complexity. An analysis of longitudinal data from five children in the Childes database shows that Dutch children first acquire the additive en (and), then the temporal connective toen (then), later the adversative maar (but), and finally the causal markers want (because/so), omdat (because/so) and daarom (therefore). The conclusion of this paper is that the operationalizations of complexity indeed give an explanation for the acquisition order. Furthermore, children might make use of a bootstrapping technique to learn the segment-connecting use of words that can also be used sentence-internally. This bootstrapping technique can account for the fact that the Dutch adversative maar is acquired relatively early compared to the English but. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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