Advances in the Stylistics of Literature Reading
Stylistics research has become increasingly interested in questions of readership in describing and accounting for the meaning of literary texts.The paper reviews a historical move from more textual earlier understandings of stylistics to acceptance of the need to look at literary communication as discourse in contexts, including questions of readership.Two broad research traditions are outlined, following Peplow & Carter (2014), one more inflected by psychology and experiment, the other more qualitative in nature, including ethnographies and discourse analysis.An important puzzle raised for stylistics scholarship is the degree to which or how exactly language contributes to meaning making by readers, with apparently contradictory findings coming out of each tradition.The way forward would seem to be mutual interrogation of each research approach by the other with carefully designed studies testing and exploring in more depth some of the apparent contradictions that have appeared around the basic stylistic question of the primacy of language for literary reading experience.
reading literature empirical studies of literature reading language in literature stylistics of literary reading the reader of literature
Geoff Hall
The University of Nottingham Ningbo China
国内会议
重庆
英文
3-16
2014-10-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）