Readability, Syntactic Transformations, and Generative Semantics.
T. Stevenson Hansell · The Journal of Reading · 1976
The author teaches upper level reading at the University of Delaware, Newark. ■ Interest in readability, as a means of determining the ease by which printed text may be understood, has waxed and waned reflecting the interests of scholars and society. In America, the initial apogee of interest came during the 1930s. Based on a desire to provide easily understandable public information and to match children