<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Shawna,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for sharing this piece.  I enjoyed reading it.  I've been following the Plain Language (<i>klarspråk</i>) movement in Sweden so it's a topic </div><div>of interest to me from a language policy and planning perspective.</div><div><br></div><div>In the piece, you mention the prescriptivist tension and attempts to mitigate this.  I'm wondering if you could say a bit more about how </div><div>Plain Language scholars engage with the potential for application to take a prescriptivist turn.  In Sweden, my sense is that the Plain Language</div>movement has leaned towards <a href="https://www.routledge.com/Verbal-Hygiene/Cameron/p/book/9780415696005">verbal hygiene</a>, but perhaps that is influenced by dominant ideologies of normativity in Sweden.<br><div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Francis<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div><font size="2"><b>Francis M. Hult, PhD, FRGS</b> </font><font size="2"><span>|</span></font><b> </b>Professor</div><div>Department of Education</div><div>University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)</div><div><br></div><div>Editor, <a href="https://www.springer.com/series/5894" target="_blank">Educational Linguistics Book Series</a> <br></div><div>Co-Editor, <a href="https://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/16644" target="_blank">Contributions to the Sociology of Language Book Series</a></div><div></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://education.umbc.edu/faculty-list/francis-m-hult/" target="_blank">Web Profile</a> <span>|</span> <a href="http://umbc.academia.edu/FrancisMHult" target="_blank">Academia.edu</a> | <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2x7pOMwAAAAJ&h" target="_blank">Google Scholar</a> | <a href="http://tesol.umbc.edu/" target="_blank">TESOL@UMBC</a></div><div><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><img src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4x6A7feW5AMw0k8d_RBIpmS7TpRdADyhZH2v4Hke0FycOyMXDENqrYd7BuX5J3H6O_RGuDmWJw" width="62" height="96"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 10:07 AM karen stanley via Edling <<a href="mailto:edling@lists.mail.umbc.edu">edling@lists.mail.umbc.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>                Thank you!  I've shared it ... wait ... on Facebook!  (Is that high praise or something a bit different?????)<br><br>Karen<br><br><br>            </div>            <div style="margin:10px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">                        <div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(38,40,42)">                                <div>                    On Friday, October 13, 2023 at 09:26:39 AM EDT, Shapiro, Shawna via Edling <<a href="mailto:edling@lists.mail.umbc.edu" target="_blank">edling@lists.mail.umbc.edu</a>> wrote:                </div>                <div><br></div>                <div><br></div>                <div><div id="m_-2369631393518555387yiv9078885237">  <div><div><p>Thought you all might find this relevant to your work<span style="font-family:UI sans-serif">😊</span></p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/10/13/plain-language-key-dei-academe-opinion" target="_blank">https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/10/13/plain-language-key-dei-academe-opinion</a></p> <p>  </p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Shawna</p> <p>  </p> <p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(79,98,40)">Shawna Shapiro, PhD [she/they]</span><span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(79,98,40)">Associate Professor of Writing and Linguistics</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(79,98,40)">Middlebury College- Munroe 119</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(79,98,40)">802.443.5977 or 206.919.6060 (cell)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:10pt">Website:<span style="color:black"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="http://sites.middlebury.edu/shapiro/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://sites.middlebury.edu/shapiro/</span></a></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">Latest book: <i><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.routledge.com/Cultivating-Critical-Language-Awareness-in-the-Writing-Classroom/Shapiro/p/book/9780367767402" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Cultivating Critical Language Awareness in the Writing Classroom</span></a></i></span><i></i></p> <p>  </p> </div></div></div><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Edlin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