Style and Reader Response

Minds, media, methods

Editors

Alice Bell | Sheffield Hallam University

Sam Browse | Sheffield Hallam University

Alison Gibbons | Sheffield Hallam University

David Peplow | Sheffield Hallam University

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Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods profiles the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches in reception-oriented research in stylistics. Collectively, the chapters investigate how real readers, players, audiences, and viewers respond to, experience, and interpret texts. Contributions to the book investigate discourse types such as contemporary literature, poetry, political speeches, digital fiction, art exhibitions, and online news discourse. The volume also exemplifies the variety of empirical approaches in reception research, with contributors drawing on a range of methods including discussion groups, interviews, questionnaires, and think-aloud protocols with data analysed from both online and offline sources. Style and Reader Response makes an important contribution to an emerging paradigm within stylistics in which verifiable insights from readers are used to generate new models and new understandings of texts across media, with each essay demonstrating the centrality of empirical research for theoretical, methodological, and/or analytical advancements within and beyond stylistics.

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 36] 2021. vii, 236 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 5 February 2021

https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.36

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii

Chapter 1. Responding to style

Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow | pp. 1–20

Section I. Minds

Chapter 2. Interpretation in interaction: On the dialogic nature of response

David Peplow and Sara Whiteley | pp. 21–42

Chapter 3. Modelling an unethical mind

Jessica Norledge | pp. 43–60

Chapter 4. Towards an empirical stylistics of critical reception: The oppositional reader in political discourse

Sam Browse | pp. 61–80

Chapter 5. A cognitive and cultural reader response theory of character construction

Julia Vaeßen and Sven Strasen | pp. 81–98

Section II. Media

Chapter 6. “Why do you insist that Alana is not real?”: Visitors’ perceptions of the fictionality of Andi and Lance Olsen’s ‘there’s no place like time’ exhibition

Alison Gibbons | pp. 99–122

Chapter 7. Reading hyperlinks in hypertext fiction: An Empirical Approach

Isabelle van der Bom, Lyle Skains, Alice Bell and Astrid Ensslin | pp. 123–142

Chapter 8. Evaluating news events: Using appraisal for reader response

Martine van Driel | pp. 143–162

Section III. Methods

Chapter 9. In defence of introspection

Peter Stockwell | pp. 163–178

Chapter 10. Reading the readers: Ethical and methodological issues for researching readers and reading in the digital age

Bronwen Thomas | pp. 179–196

Chapter 11. Extra-textuality and affective intensities: Moving out from readers to people, places, and things

Hugh Escott | pp. 197–216

Chapter 12. Postscript: Toward a reconciliation of empirical traditions in the investigation of reading and literature

Moniek M. Kuijpers | pp. 217–230

Index

“ Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods expertly showcases the value and versatility of empirical reader response methods in contemporary stylistic research. The studies and methodological applications in this collection trace those inherent dialogic connections that exist between text and reader, and convincingly demonstrate that, regardless of whether the data under focused consideration is the literary text or reader responses, reception-oriented research has much to offer stylistic accounts of reading. [...] The collection celebrates the value of situated and contextualised approaches. It demonstrates that naturalistic methodologies can be empirical, that experimental protocols can be qualitative, and that all such approaches can be systematic and scientific, and rigorous and reliable, in their own right.”

Chloe Harrison, Aston University, in Narrative Inquiry 33:1 (2023)

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