Medical communication between Plain Language and Einfache Sprache: A corpus analysis of layperson summaries of clinical trials in English, German, and Italian

Giulia Pedrini is a post-doc researcher at the University of Trieste (Department of Legal, Language, Interpreting and Translation Studies), where she has also been teaching German-Italian translation as an adjunct professor at the course Interlinguistic Communication Applied to Legal Professions. She obtained her PhD in Linguistic and Literary Studies (‘Studi linguistici e letterari’) with a focus on Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting at the University of Udine, in convention with the University of Trieste. Her main research interests are accessibility, Plain Language, translation studies, contrastive linguistics, medical language and terminology.