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The study begins from two premises not previously considered together: that written communication represents a social reality sui generis, and that this social reality is constituted in the medium of writing. The authors invoke a new understanding of the concept of readability as a fundamental condition for communication with and through writing, and elaborate its theoretical and empirical implications.

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Heiko Hausendorf, Wolfgang Kesselheim, Hiloko Kato und Martina Breitholz, Universität Zürich, Schweiz.