Talk About Books: A Study of Reading Groups

212 Pages·2016·1.028 MB·English

by  David Peplow

Talk About Books
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Talk About Books
A Study of Reading Groups
David Peplow
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First published 2016
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ISBN: HB: 978-1-4725-7022-2
PB: 978-1-3500-4553-8
ePDF: 978-1-4725-7023-9
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Contents
Transcription Key v i
Acknowledgements v ii
1 Introduction 1
2 Communities of Readers 31
3 Reading Group Organization 55
4 Reported Discourse in the Reading Groups 1 01
5 Mimetic Reading in the Groups 1 39
6 Conclusion 175
Notes 181
Bibliography 183
Index 197
Transcription Key
Transcript feature Key
(.) brief pause – less than 0.5 seconds
(0.5) timed pause
= latching – no pause between speakers’ turns
[yeah simultaneous speech
[yeah
Underlined talk speaker places emphasis on word or phrase
>yes< speaker speeds-up
<no> speaker slows down
::: drawn-out sound
Hhh exhalation
xxxxxx inaudible speech
↑ rising intonation
↓ lowering intonation
‘ ’ quoted speech from third-party
(( laughter )) paralinguistic feature or non-verbal communication feature
{RP voice} shift into exaggerated voice
? unable to distinguish speaker
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the reading groups who kindly provided the data for this
study. I would also like to thank the funders of the original project on which this
book is based: the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Most thanks goes to my family and friends, who have supported me
throughout the researching and writing of this book.