A Dialectical Approach to Reader Response [electronic resource] / Sara N. Davis.
Reading is best understood as a dialectic process where the influence of reader and text are constantly merging to create a jointly produced and evolving understanding. What occurs as the reader and text come together during reading is similar in form to a dialogue, a model for the reader-text relat...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | Reading is best understood as a dialectic process where the influence of reader and text are constantly merging to create a jointly produced and evolving understanding. What occurs as the reader and text come together during reading is similar in form to a dialogue, a model for the reader-text relationship that has not been explored in the reader response literature. Establishing an empirical basis for the study of the reader-text relationship requires an ability to isolate the nature of the relationship as it exists at any one moment and then develops over time. The interruption method offers this ability by presenting the ideas, feelings, and associations of the reader for immediate analysis. This method consists of dividing the text into 12 sections and then recording the reader's responses to each section on audiotape. The result is an assortment of actual data that allows for an analysis of the reader-text relationship over multiple parts of the reading. This kind of analysis will show that the reader-text relationship is a mutually dependent one composed of the interactive influence of both reader and text and the creation at each moment of a singular synthesis of meaning. (MS) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED304676. ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association (96th, Atlanta, GA, August 12-16, 1988). |
| Physical Description: | 14 p. |