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Talk About Books: A Study of Reading Groups

Autor David Peplow
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 feb 2016
Over the last two decades, reading groups have become increasingly popular in the UK and the USA. More and more people seem to be interested in sharing their reading experiences and hearing other readers discuss their views on books, whether this is online, through the mass media, or in face-to-face contexts. In light of this explosion in popularity of reading groups, this ethnographic study focuses on several reading groups based across a variety of settings: public libraries, public houses and in readers' homes. A range of methods are used to investigate the practices of the individual readers and the groups, including participant observation, interviews, and audio-recordings of meetings.Reading groups are found to be highly ritualized and potentially competitive places in which matters of identity and taste are often at stake. The groups studied are conceptualized as communities of practice, and the literary interpretations and evaluations offered within each group are shown to be a product of shared norms established by this group.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472570222
ISBN-10: 1472570227
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Considers the act of reading as a social activity, as opposed to something that people do in private - and what this means in terms of our engagement with the written word

Notă biografică

David Peplow is Lecturer in English Language, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Cuprins

1. Introduction2. The Groups: Communities of Readers3. Reading Group Organisation: Reading Resources4. Reported Discourse in the Groups5. Mimetic Reading in the Groups6. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Peplow demonstrates detailed analysis of spoken language ... The critical evaluation of CoP [communities of practice] and CA [conversation analysis] in this book is insightful and would be useful for researchers and postgraduate students who are considering using these approaches to analyse their data.
In this detailed and insightful exploration of book group discussions, David Peplow explores the sometimes collaborative, sometimes antagonistic experience of what it means to be a book group member. Working with the fine-grained detail of transcripts of talk, he demonstrates (rather than simply asserts) some of the rhetorical and interactional strategies by which speakers manage their entitlements and obligations as members, how they work up collective readings and judgements, and how reading practices are both revealed and negotiated through interaction. A valuable contribution to the growing scholarship on book groups, Peplow's text offers particular insight into the order and norms of the book group as a community of practice.
Over the last decade, conversation analysis has emerged as the most rigorous and systematic means of studying the things people say about books. Its full power is brought to bear on the speech of four British reading groups in this fascinating study, which should be read by everyone who has an interest in real readers - and is willing to wave farewell to that speculative sacred cow, the 'reader' known to stylistics and literary criticism.