The theory of language comprehensibility/readability, especially in professional communication, is a developing new subdiscipline in German applied linguistics. It emphasizes the importance of considering the reader’s pre-knowledge in the process of text production. The article presents to the Slovene audience less well-known approaches towards comprehensibility/readability, which is clearly distinguished from comprehension, starting with the evaluation of text readability, the consideration reader predispositions in the process of text production and models of text optimization.
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