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The Discourse of Reading Groups

读书小组的讨论

基本信息

批准号：
AH/E007287/1
负责人：
Joan Swann
金额：
$ 11.47万
依托单位：
The Open University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2007
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2007 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FE007287%2F1
关键词：
Discourse Reading Groups

项目摘要

This research explores the discourse of reading groups (including book clubs and book groups): people who meet regularly to discuss and evaluate literary texts. Reading groups are an important source of everyday judgements about literature. While we know a great deal about professional readings and debates - in the form of published reviews and literary criticism - much less attention is paid to how ordinary readers engage with literary texts. Yet reading plays an important part in many people's lives. And reading is not simply a private matter: people have always discussed their reading, and the contemporary surge in the popularity of reading groups has provided new sites for critical literary debate.Reading groups have become something of a cultural phenomenon in the UK and other countries, affecting book sales and marketing, and individuals' reading choices. A recent estimate puts the number of groups at around 50,000 in the UK and 500,000 in the US, not counting the increasing number of groups who interact online. Groups may discuss popular fiction, but they also read established canonical literature and, more usually, contemporary fiction seen as high quality (e.g. books that are shortlisted for literary prizes, that are the subject of published reviews and included in university syllabuses). However, while their reading choices relate to academic conceptions of literary quality, the available evidence suggests that reading groups do not try to emulate academic discussion, but rather relate books to their own lives and concerns: reading may thus become 'a tool for living'. It is the nature of such everyday literary judgements, how they are constructed, and how they contribute to the negotiation of reader identities that forms the subject of this research.Reading groups have aroused strong media interest, and have themselves received a boost from media initiatives such as Oprah Winfrey's book club (launched with the slogan that this would 'get America reading again') and, in the UK, the Richard and Judy book club, the Mail on Sunday's You magazine reading group, BBC Radio 4's Book Club discussion programme and numerous web sites. Reading groups have, however, been relatively neglected in academic research, and studies that exist tend to be based on surveys, interviews and some observation but without a focus on the analysis of reading group discourse. The proposed research addresses this issue: it will provide an analysis of discussion across a range of reading groups, focusing on the kinds of interpretations and evaluations groups produce of contemporary fiction and other literary texts; how such interpretations are constructed in discussion between participants; how participants negotiate particular reader identities; and how such everyday critical judgements compare with the judgements of literary professionals, such as critics and academics. The study forms part of a recent influential strand of research on everyday literary activity, and it is intended to contribute to literary theory that takes account of ordinary readers.The methodology is innovative in this context, combining qualitative and quantitative analysis. This includes a close, qualitative interactional analysis, focusing on the construction of locally-produced meanings, and supported by qualitative analysis software; and quantitative corpus linguistic analysis that will allow us to compare aspects of reading group discourse with a large reference corpus of spoken English.The study will reflect the diversity of contemporary reading groups, including female, male and mixed groups; face-to-face and online groups; and groups that meet in people's houses; in bookshops or libraries; in institutional contexts such as workplaces or schools.The results of the study will be disseminated to academic audiences (in conference papers and journal articles) as well as more popular audiences (in newspapers, magazines and reading group websites).

这项研究探讨了阅读小组(包括读书俱乐部和读书小组)的话语：定期聚会讨论和评价文学文本的人。阅读小组是日常文学判断的重要来源。虽然我们对专业阅读和辩论--以发表的评论和文学评论的形式--知道很多，但对普通读者如何参与文学文本的关注要少得多。然而，阅读在许多人的生活中扮演着重要的角色。阅读不仅仅是一件私事：人们总是在讨论自己的阅读，而当代阅读团体的流行为批判性文学辩论提供了新的场所。在英国和其他国家，阅读团体已经成为一种文化现象，影响着图书的销售和营销，以及个人的阅读选择。最近的一项估计显示，英国的群体数量约为5万，美国为50万，这还不包括不断增长的在线互动群体数量。小组可能讨论通俗小说，但他们也阅读公认的规范文学，更通常是被视为高质量的当代小说(例如，入围文学奖的书籍，出版评论的主题，并包括在大学教学大纲中)。然而，尽管他们的阅读选择与文学质量的学术概念有关，但现有证据表明，阅读团体并不试图效仿学术讨论，而是将书籍与自己的生活和关切联系起来：阅读可能因此成为一种“生活工具”。正是这些日常文学判断的本质，它们是如何构建的，以及它们如何为读者身份的谈判做出贡献，构成了本研究的主题。阅读团体已经引起了媒体的强烈兴趣，并从媒体倡议中获得了提振，比如奥普拉·温弗瑞的读书俱乐部(其口号是这将让美国再次阅读)，在英国，理查德和朱迪读书俱乐部，星期日邮报的你杂志阅读小组，英国广播公司广播四台的S读书俱乐部讨论节目和许多网站。然而，阅读群体在学术研究中相对被忽视，现有的研究往往是基于调查、访谈和一些观察，而没有关注阅读群体话语的分析。这项拟议的研究解决了这一问题：它将对一系列阅读小组的讨论进行分析，重点放在小组对当代小说和其他文学文本的解释和评价的类型；参与者之间的讨论如何构建这种解释；参与者如何协商特定的读者身份；以及这些日常批评判断与文学专业人士(如批评家和学者)的判断如何比较。这项研究是近期有影响力的日常文学活动研究的一部分，旨在为考虑普通读者的文学理论做出贡献。在这一背景下，方法是创新的，结合了定性和定量分析。这包括一项密切的、定性的交互分析，侧重于构建本地产生的意义，并由定性分析软件支持；以及定量语料库语言分析，使我们能够将阅读小组话语的各个方面与大量的参考英语口语语料库进行比较。研究将反映当代阅读小组的多样性，包括女性、男性和混合小组；面对面和在线小组；以及在人们家里、书店或图书馆会面的小组；研究结果将在学术受众(会议论文和期刊文章)以及更受欢迎的受众(报纸、杂志和阅读小组网站)中传播。