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Style and reader response: minds, media, methods Linguistic approaches to literature ;, v. 36./ edited by Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons, David Peplow, Sheffield Hallam University.
No full textChapters are based on presentations held at the Style and Response: Minds, Media, Methods conference in Sheffield, England.Includes bibliographical references and index."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"--Responding to style / Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons & David Peplow -- Interpretation in interaction : on the dialogic nature of response / David Peplow & Sara Whiteley -- Modelling an unethical mind / Jessica Norledge -- Towards an empirical stylistics of critical reception : the oppositional reader in political discourse / Sam Browse -- A cognitive and cultural reader response theory of character construction / Julia Vaessen & Sven Strasen -- "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 -- Reading hyperlinks in hypertext fiction : an empirical approach / Isabelle van der Bom, Lyle Skains, Alice Bell, & Astrid Ensslin -- Evaluating news events : using appraisal for reader response / Martine van Driel -- In defence of introspection / Peter Stockwell -- Reading the readers : ethical and methodological issues for researching readers and reading in the digital age / Bronwen Thomas -- Extra-textuality and affective intensities : moving out from readers to people, places, and things / Hugh Escott -- Postscript : toward a reconciliation of empirical traditions in the investigation of reading and literature / Moniek M. Kuijpers.1 online resource (vi, 236 pages)
Repositioning the graphic designer as researcher
No full textIn academic terms, the discipline of graphic design is relatively young. Consequently the position of the discipline within academic territory, and the role of the designer, continue to be debated. In part, these debates have been a product of attempts to define and defend the discipline’s borders from within, in order to establish a sense of the role of graphic design and the graphic designer as commensurate with other disciplines both within and beyond art and design. In recent years graphic designers have variously been defined as ‘authors’, ‘producers’ and ‘readers’, yet none of these definitions seem to have provided any kind of productive or lasting impact within the academy. This paper suggests that rather than continue to seek territorial definitions and positions from within, it could be more productive to look beyond the confines of the discipline. Gaining a broader, interdisciplinary perspective on, and understanding of, qualitative research methods from other disciplines may enable the graphic designer to more fully position his or her practice within the wider academy. Such a perspective could help facilitate the repositioning and redefinition of the graphic designer as ‘researcher’ - a move that would be productive in relation to the future development of postgraduate research within the discipline
On the interpretive effects of double perspective in genitive constructions
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Interview with Alison Frank, September 25, 2009
No full textInterview Themes: How Frank chooses research topics (00:50)
Aspects of her training as a historian Frank found useful (07:00)
Books that have inspired and informed Frank's work (11:11)
On the role of area studies for scholarship on East-Central Europe (14:00)
"Internationalizing" the history of East-Central Europe (19:30)
Advice to young historians/scholars working on the region (22:11)Interview with Alison Frank, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. Interview conducted in Ithaca, NY on September 25, 2009. Professor Frank is the author of a number of articles and an excellent book on the oil industry in the Habsburg Monarchy entitled Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia. She is now working on a project on the coastline of Austria-Hungary.1_9lz5ekh
Veteran Law Students: Institutional Initiatives To Transform Their Law School Experiences
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Introduction: The Politics of Resilience and Recovery in Mental Health Care
No full textThe articles included in this special issue engage these themes across a number of national settings, institutional spaces, and empirical sites, from universities to mental health commissions, to national policy in an international context. They focus, especially, on Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom, where recent and significant changes in mental health governance have relied heavily on the notions of recovery and resilience, often to questionable effect. They deal, as we have said, with some of the most central themes in social justice studies. As a collection, the articles help us think through some of the pressing political questions about social justice that have arisen with the adoption of the mantras of resilience and recovery in mental health governance
Negotiating the Culture of Resistance: A Critical Assessment of Protest Politics
No full textBoth for those within the movement and the public at large, the anti-globalization movement has become increasingly defined by large-scale protests such as those opposing the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) in Quebec City. Such events successfully render visible the strength of the movement, expose an emerging global elite, politicize neoliberal restructuring, and capture the media and public's attention. Yet the privileging of large-scale protest for advancing anti-globalist politics is increasingly being questioned both by those involved in the movement and by the Left in general.Peer reviewe
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