1st Edition
The Discourse of Reading Groups Integrating Cognitive and Sociocultural Perspectives
1. Introduction: Reading Groups and the Study of Literary Reading 2. Social Reading and the Cognitive Stylistics of Literary Texts 3. Mimetic Reading and Reader Identities 4. Co-reading and the Contextualisation of Response 5. Reading Groups and Institutional Discourse 6. Reading Online 7. Conclusion: Developing an Integrated Analysis of Reading Group Discourse
Biography
David Peplow is a Lecturer in English Language at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. His research interests include discourse analysis, stylistics, and health humanities.
Joan Swann is Emeritus Professor of English Language at the Open University, UK. She is a sociolinguist with a particular interest in the analysis of spoken interaction.
Paola Trimarco is an Associate Professor at University of Nizwa, in the Sultanate of Oman. Her specialties are digital communication, literary stylistics and sociolinguistics.
Sara Whiteley is a Lecturer in Language and Literature at The University of Sheffield, UK who specialises in cognitive stylistics and cognitive linguistic discourse analysis.
‘An innovative and ground-breaking approach to literary reading practices that challenges our understanding of what we mean by literary and what we mean by reading. Highly recommended.’ – Ronald Carter, University of Nottingham, UK
‘Readers will renew their thinking about the reception and processing of literary texts and even the value of the literary experience itself, but also be prompted to develop worthwhile new research projects for themselves.’ – Geoff Hall, University of Nottingham Ningbo China
