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Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods
Edited by Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 36] 2021
► pp. 21–42

Chapter 2
Interpretation in interaction

On the dialogic nature of response

| Sheffield Hallam University
| University of Sheffield
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1 Reading groups
    • 1.2Data collection: Andy’s group
  • 2.Style: The poem under discussion
  • 3.Dialogism
    • 3.1Dialogic syntax
  • 4.Response: Dialogic interpretation
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 8 February 2021
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