The Discourse of Reading Groups

Peplow, David; Swann, Joan; Trimarco, Paola; Whiteley, Sara

doi:10.4324/9781315850900

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“…Though the typology of mental structures, textualized in discourse, is not limited to discourse-world and text-world, Text World Theory, being very applicable in literary criticism and literary stylistics, has proved useful for understanding how the recipients construct mental representations as they read (Peplow et al, 2016;Whitely, 2011). In fact, contemporary Text World Theory is more focused on the receptive side of communication, that is, the analysis of the reader's experience of text rather than the writer's production of it (Trimarco, 2015).…”

Section: Underlying Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

World-modelling in advertising discourse: pragmatic aspects

Kushneruk

2019

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The article is dedicated to world-modelling in commercial advertising. The author draws on European and Russian cognitive-discursive theories, which emphasize the importance of studying discourse in terms of mental representations and sets out the basics of World Modelling Theory. The named theory is used in the paper as a framework for understanding linguistic mechanisms of structuring information about the world by 'the powerful' agent of advertising discourse and its representation in slogans for the main objectives of communication. The argument is that text-worlds, generated by slogans, are cognitive-pragmatic representational structures of discourse, mediating the interaction of agent, client, and product, that depend on a wide range of contextual factors, having marketing character. The paper considers linguistic mechanisms of activating representational structures in correlation with pragmatic aspects of advertising communication, which lead to profiling three entities in the text-worlds-ADDRESSER, ADDRESSEE, PRODUCT. Typical world-modelling patterns are analyzed in the perspective REALITY-POTENTIALITY. It is shown that agent of discourse governs the perception of state of affairs presented in the text-world either exploiting the existing mass representations or creating new ones that eventually become socially accepted.

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World-modelling in advertising discourse: pragmatic aspects

Kushneruk

2019

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“…Despite the considerable attention this theoretical premise received, the focus of much of this work centred on the hypothetical and highly theorized ‘individual reader’. This theoretical orientation was expanded to include groups of readers, and led in part to Stanley Fish’s important contributions concerning ‘communities of interpretation’—groups of readers who, through their shared experiences, converged on similar readings of texts [ 6 , 7 ]. The consideration of broad-scale responses of readers to works of fiction, however, remains understudied, not because of a lack of interest on the part of literary historians and theorists, but because of a lack of access to those readers’ responses, and a lack of methods to address this at times noisy data.…”

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“…The advent of social reading sites on the Internet that allow individual readers to join in wide-ranging discussions of individual works of fiction through reader-generated reviews and comment threads on those reviews has enabled a revisiting of fundamental questions of how people respond to literary fiction [ 1 , 4 , 7 , 8 ]. Perhaps best known among these sites in the USA is Goodreads that, along with sites like it, represents an online attempt to reproduce the face-to-face space of book clubs and library groups, where there is no ‘right’ answer to reading the work (as there might be, at least implicitly, in a classroom), nor any hierarchy of critical insight (as there might be in a forum where professional reviewers or literary critics might dominate the conversation) [ 7 , 9 ]. Because these sites archive the reader reviews and the ensuing comment threads on those reviews, they offer an opportunity to explore computationally how people respond to individual works of fiction, and how they explore such a work as communities of interpretation emerge [ 4 ].…”

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Modelling social readers: novel tools for addressing reception from online book reviews

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Social reading sites offer an opportunity to capture a segment of readers’ responses to literature, while data-driven analysis of these responses can provide new critical insight into how people ‘read’. Posts discussing an individual book on the social reading site, Goodreads , are referred to as ‘reviews’, and consist of summaries, opinions, quotes or some mixture of these. Computationally modelling these reviews allows one to discover the non-professional discussion space about a work, including an aggregated summary of the work’s plot, an implicit sequencing of various subplots and readers’ impressions of main characters. We develop a pipeline of interlocking computational tools to extract a representation of this reader-generated shared narrative model. Using a corpus of reviews of five popular novels, we discover readers’ distillation of the novels’ main storylines and their sequencing, as well as the readers’ varying impressions of characters in the novel. In so doing, we make three important contributions to the study of infinite-vocabulary networks: (i) an automatically derived narrative network that includes meta-actants; (ii) a sequencing algorithm, REV2SEQ, that generates a consensus sequence of events based on partial trajectories aggregated from reviews, and (iii) an ‘impressions’ algorithm, SENT2IMP, that provides multi-modal insight into readers’ opinions of characters.

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“…Reading therefore becomes as much a social activity as an individual one. Peplow et al (2016) adopt a socio-cognitive perspective, where they refer to the reading experience as firmly social. What they meant by this was that readers often construct their own interpretations based on social factors such as their life experiences.…”

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“…What they meant by this was that readers often construct their own interpretations based on social factors such as their life experiences. Schema theory and TWT (utilised in Peplow et al (2016)) are especially useful in tracking these factors, including how and where they informed textual interpretation.…”

Section: Reading Relationshipsmentioning

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The application of cognitive poetics to the primary school reading experience

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This thesis examines the reading experiences of Key Stage 2 students, through a cognitive poetic lens. Cognitive poetics is a strand of stylistics that helps us to understand the reading process. This is particularly useful given the current state of English education, where scores, tests, de-contextualised grammar and linguistic analysis dominates the field. This thesis champions authentic reading as a way of challenging these distorted priorities and seeks to reflect and engage with an individual’s own interpretation and reading of the text. Legitimising individual students’ responses, with the use of cognitive poetics, has allowed me to unearth the elements of English and reading I believe are particularly salient. The thesis details the findings of my ethnographic investigation of a school advocating for reading for pleasure, authenticity and personal response. It draws on two cognitive poetic frameworks (schema theory and text-world theory) to examine the potential of individual student textual interpretation, the aspects of their background knowledge that had contributed to these interpretations, and the process of their eventual understanding. This research is especially valuable in highlighting the potential of cognitive poetics as a ‘lens’ through which to view reading practices in schools. The relevance of this research is undeniable when situated alongside current debates in the field of English - including arguments surrounding a ‘best’ pedagogical practice, the effects, value and importance of reading, and the current content and culture of English in the classroom.

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The Discourse of Reading Groups

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World-modelling in advertising discourse: pragmatic aspects

World-modelling in advertising discourse: pragmatic aspects

Modelling social readers: novel tools for addressing reception from online book reviews

The application of cognitive poetics to the primary school reading experience

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