27.983, Books: Talk About Books: Peplow

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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:32:07
From: Lianna Iwanikiw [lianna.iwanikiw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Talk About Books: Peplow

 


Title: Talk About Books 
Subtitle: A Study of Reading Groups 
Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/talk-about-books-9781472570222/ 


Author: David Peplow

Electronic: ISBN:  9781472570239 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 74.99 Comment: PDF
Electronic: ISBN:  9781472570246 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 74.99 Comment: ePUB
Hardback: ISBN:  9781472570222 Pages: 208 Price: U.K. £ 75.00


Abstract:

Over the last two decades, reading groups have become increasingly popular in
the UK and the USA. More and more people seem to be interested in sharing
their reading experiences and hearing other readers discuss their views on
books, whether this is online, through the mass media, or in face-to-face
contexts.

In light of this explosion in popularity of reading groups, this ethnographic
study focuses on several reading groups based across a variety of settings:
public libraries, public houses and in readers' homes. A range of methods are
used to investigate the practices of the individual readers and the groups,
including participant observation, interviews, and audio-recordings of
meetings.

Reading groups are found to be highly ritualized and potentially competitive
places in which matters of identity and taste are often at stake. The groups
studied are conceptualized as communities of practice, and the literary
interpretations and evaluations offered within each group are shown to be a
product of shared norms established by this group.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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