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Speech presentation in newspapers: An empirical reader response

open access: yesFields, 2021
This article contributes to the understanding of how readers experience speech presentation. Speech presentation is part of the discourse presentation model (Leech and Short, 1981), which outlines a series of strategies for how a speech event can be ...
Matthew Butler
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The Role of the Reader-Response Approach to Teaching Short Stories in Developing Students’ Critical Thinking in EFL Literature Classes: A Quasi-Experimental Study

open access: yesZanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2023
Literature has become one of the major concerns of EFL classes. It is now regarded as one of the authentic resources that can be used in the language classroom along with other resources.
Hazha Salih Hassan   +2 more
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Sleep ‘self help’ books: autobiographical evaluations and personal entanglements with reading professional advice books on young children’s sleep. An exploration of the journey through early parenting and managing sleep through two mothers-as-researchers perspectives.

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Life Writing, 2023
This article reports on two researchers’ experiences of navigating children’s night-time sleep, in relation to reading best-selling parenting books, published by professionals in the UK in the last 20 years. We felt we were ‘getting it wrong’ where we so
Lexie Scherer, Amanda Norman
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Selecting intervention content to target barriers and enablers of recognition and response to deteriorating patients: an online nominal group study

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Patients who deteriorate in hospital wards without appropriate recognition and/or response are at risk of increased morbidity and mortality.
Duncan Smith   +4 more
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“I shall not trouble the reader”: Gulliver’s Travels, readers and reading

open access: yesXVII-XVIII, 2020
Judicious, candid, curious, indulgent, gentle, courteous, ignorant… Lemuel Gulliver characterizes his readers in various ways. Although such modifiers may appear merely formulaic, they are an integral part of the complex relationship Jonathan Swift ...
Ruth Menzies
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Reader’s Responses of the Colonized Land in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

open access: yesLinguistika Kultura, 2022
This study discusses colonialism in Africa in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. It aims to study readers' responses regarding colonialism in the novella.
Sonya Suciati Bedihardjo   +1 more
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Reader’s Factors in Interpreting Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe Using Reader-Response Theory: A Preliminary Study

open access: yesHumaniora, 2011
Article aims to find variety of interpretations on Eldorado poem, following the readers’ internal factors, such as societal norms, personal values and past experiences influence the interpretations.
Risa R. Simanjuntak   +1 more
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Aging reimagined: Exploring older women’s attitudes to aging through reader response [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article is available open access through the publisher’s website through the link below. Copyright @ 2011 The Author.Since the 1970s, concern with questions of reception within literary studies has been, at best, sporadic.
Morrison, J
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Let Seizing Truths Lie: Witnessing “Factions” in Lauren Slater’s Lying

open access: yesHumanities, 2017
In her memoir, Lying (2000), Lauren Slater fabricates most of her life narrative. Her text frustrates those who resent the combined fact and fiction—or “faction”—that she spins. This readerly response is understandable.
Eden Wales Freedman
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The (Ir)Relevance of Science Fiction to Non-Binary and Genderqueer Readers

open access: yesELOPE, 2018
As an example of jean Baudrillard’s third order of simulacra, contemporary science fiction represents a convenient literary platform for the exploration of our current and future understanding of gender, gender variants and gender fluidity.
Anamarija Šporčič
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