Style and Reader Response : Minds, Media, Methods.

Intro -- Style and Reader Response -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Responding to style -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Stylistics and the reader -- 3. Minds -- 4. Media -- 5. Methods -- 6. Conclusion -- 2. Interpretation in interaction -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Reading groups -- 1.2 Data collection: Andy's group -- 2. Style: The poem under discussion -- 3. Dialogism -- 3.1 Dialogic syntax -- 4. Response: Dialogic interpretation -- 5. Conclusion -- 3. Modelling an unethical mind -- 1. Introduction: The dystopian imagination -- 2. Reading dystopian minds -- 2.1 Text World Theory and mind-modelling -- 3. The refracted text-worlds of Bacigalupi's "Pop Squad" -- 4. Mind-modelling the narrator -- 5. Conclusion: Projecting and resisting text-world ethics -- 4. Towards an empirical stylistics of critical reception -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Text World Theory and critical reception -- 3. Resisting "out loud" -- 4. Resisting the writer (…and the other discourse participants) -- 5. Resisting the text-world -- 6. Conclusion: towards a stylistics of critical reception -- 5. A cognitive and cultural reader response theory of character construction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Context, literary reading, and cultural models -- 3. A cognitive and cultural reader response theory of character construction -- 3.1 Cultural models in character construction: Categorical knowledge and interpretive patterns -- 3.2 The cultural model of character -- 4. Toward the (empirical) analysis of cultural models at work -- 6. "Why do you insist that Alana is not real?" -- 1. Introduction: There's no artist like Alana Olsen -- 2. Fictionality and empirical Research: There's no reality like fiction -- 2.1 The development of fiction/reality distinctions -- 2.2 Factors effecting fiction/reality judgment and processing.

2.3 Summary of fictionality and empirical research -- 3. Modelling cognition in museums: There's no methodology like cognitive stylistics -- 4. Exhibition style: There's no place like time -- 5. Questionnaire response: There's no data like qualitative answers -- 5.1 Is Alana Olsen real enough to meet? -- 5.2 Retrospective disbelief -- 5.3 Belief in the auto/biographical retrospective and emotional response -- 5.4 Personal relevance and reality creating fiction -- 6. Conclusion: There's no felt experience like referentiality -- 7. Reading hyperlinks in hypertext fiction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hyperlinks in hypertext fiction -- 3. Different typologies -- 4. Our empirical approach to hyperlinks -- 5. Analysis -- 5.1 New Pics, Rain, Danish -- 5.2 Last Summer, Thing -- 6. Conclusion -- 8. Evaluating news events -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reader response to news media -- 3. Evaluative language analysis -- 3.1 Appreciation -- 3.2 Appraisal and news values -- 4. Methodology -- 4.1 News texts collection -- 4.2 Interview collection -- 4.3 Analysis -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Reader response through negative quality -- 5.2 Differences in news event evaluations using negative quality -- 5.3 Summary of Results -- 6. Conclusion -- 9. In defence of introspection -- 1. The problem of observing reading -- 2. The nature of introspection -- 3. Introspecting a poem -- 4. A retrospective on the argument -- References -- 10. Reading the readers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background to the study of readers and audiences -- 3. The impact of the digital -- 4. Web 2.0 and online participatory cultures -- 5. Going beyond text -- 6. Access and anonymity: Negotiating the public versus the private -- 7. Reflexivity and the responsibilities of researchers -- 8. Mixed methods approaches -- 9. Moving from subjects to participants -- 10. Creative participatory methods -- 11. Conclusion.

Funding -- References -- 11. Extra-textuality and affective intensities -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Extending reading and the extra-textual -- 3. Assemblages of bodies, materials, environments, and texts -- 3.1 Affect and stylistics -- 3.2 Affect and literacy studies -- 3.3 Literacy as ideological and multitudinous -- 3.4 Relational practices -- 3.5 Immersion, pleasure and affect -- 4. The extra-textual in the analysis of writing -- 4.1 "Un-thinking" with Grimm &amp -- Co: Background and methodology -- 4.2 The coming together of people, places and things, in the creation of a story -- 5. Conclusion -- Funding -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 12. Postscript -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- Index.

Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods profiles the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches in reception-oriented research in stylistics.

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