Simplification et inclusion dans les pages du site du ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères traduites en FALC

Abstract This article deals with the simplification of administrative documents addressed to people affected by intellectual disabilities in French language, by looking at the FALC ( français Facile À Lire et à Comprendre ) version of seven texts published on the website of the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs. The analysis takes into consideration both the European guidelines for easy and simple texts, and the French national recommendations published in the Charte d’accessibilité des services de l’État , in order to verify whether these rules are respected during the process of writing texts in FALC in the corpus, and which type of inclusion they show. The second objective of this research consists in examining the elements which allow a text to be more gender-inclusive as far as person nouns are concerned. This study will demonstrate that it is possible to adopt specific strategies with the aim of producing documents in FALC that are respectful of inclusion also at the level of gender identity. To this end, the analysis takes into account forms and levels of “neutralisation discursive” starting from the morphological domain (nouns and pronouns). By examining the corpus, some suggestions will be presented for improving documents written in FALC also regarding gender, contributing to a more inclusive simplified language.