Energie ed energia: un elemento complesso nella Deutsche Leichte Sprache e nel linguaggio facile italiano

The paper analyses linguistic simplification in German and Italian in the form that
ideally has the highest degree of comprehensibility: Easy Language. The aim of
the analysis is the theoretical and empirical comparison between Easy German and
Easy Italian given the different situation regarding research, rules and practice in
Germany and Italy. After a theoretical overview of the writing rules, the empirical
analysis carried out mainly with Sketch Engine focuses on a corpus of texts centred
on energy: we investigate which terms recur most frequently in the texts and consider
their distribution in the corpus. A part of the analysis compares the translation from
the original text with that in Easy language to check how the linguistic and conceptual
complexity of the terms characterising the texts has been resolved.