This study explores aspects of the theoretical basis of Louise M. Rosenblatt's transactional theory of reading and its focus on the reader's efferent and aesthetic stances during transaction with nonfiction and fiction. The study explores the following questions: Does genre (nonfiction or fiction) influence the reader's response to a literarytext? Does a reader's process of reading change during a nonfictional reading compared to a fictional one? Are there certain factors that persuade a reader to view a nonfictional piece of writing differently than a fictional one? To examine these questions and to ensure the validity of the study, I wrote a story titled "The Exit" and presented the writing to three freshman English classes, first as nonfiction and then during the next class period as fiction. I chose to follow Rosenblatt's class procedure: an initial reading with free responses, an interchange of ideas, and then a rereading of the same text. For research purposes I needed bulk written and verbal responses to compare and contrast. This three-day immersion in nonfiction and fiction reflections produced sufficient data to analyze: (1) written free responses from the initial reading of the text as nonfiction; (2) recorded audio tapes of their small groups, responding to five inquiry questions regarding the nonfiction text; (3) written individual take-home responses to the same five inquiry questions; (4) written free responses from the second reading of the text as fiction; (5) recorded audio tapes of the small group discussions on their nonfiction and fiction responses; and (6) recorded audio tapes of the entire class reflections on the responses to reading the story as both nonfiction and fiction. During this expedition I kept a journal of each day's events so that as my students and I experienced this exploration together, I could capture what we all were feeling and thinking as it was actually happening. Although the students were unaware of genre influence until the third-day class reflection, there were distinct differences in student responses to nonfiction and fiction. These students predominately read nonfiction aesthetically and fiction efferently. In this study with these students, genre did influence the reader's response; the reader's process of reading did change during the nonfictional reading compared to a fictional one; and there were certain factors which persuaded the reader to view the nonfictional piece of writing differently than the fictional one. The contrast and comparison of the students' responses to nonfiction and fiction are shown in a detailed Venn diagram. In addition, I have included an extensive essay titled "The Transactional Dance: Louise Rosenblatt's Presence in the History of Literary Criticism." Her transactional theory of reading transcends time and continues to invite research. / Ed. D.

This reader-response study focuses on the influences that four readers relationships with families and friends have on their responses to several literary characters and the relationships among these characters as presented in six short stories. Four college students, two men and two women, read and responded to the stories in writing and in interviews with the researcher. The stories depict men and women confronting gender related family or individual crises concerning such topics as independence, autonomy, and the nature of the marriage commitment and male/female relationships. / Ed. D.

Previous research on the role that culture plays in reader response to literature generally has not been based on clear operational definitions of the term "culture." More often than not, researchers appear to be using the term synonymously with the reader's race, nationality, or social class, rather than including specific anthropological explanations. Moreover, there has been no research reported that isolates and then studies individual readers' cultural backgrounds as influences on their responses to American regional literature; and, while there have been some studies reported that use ethnographic methodology to examine how cultural context or setting affects response, there has been no reported ethnographic research that focuses on the influences of readers' cultural backgrounds and the cultures depicted in texts. / Ed. D.

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How we approach a poem changes it. Recently, it has been suggested that one readerly approach - a bodily orientation characterised by distance, suspicion, and resistance - risks becoming reflexive, pre-conscious, and predominant. This use-oriented reading allows us to destabilise, denaturalise, dissect, defend, and define poetic texts through its manifestation in contemporary literary critique, yet it is coming to be regarded as the sole manner and mood of intelligent, intellectual engagement. In this thesis, I demonstrate the need to pluralise this attentive orientation, particularly when it comes to contemporary lyric poetry. I suggest how an overlooked mode of response might foster a more receptive mode of approach: the 'co-creative' response. Lyric poems mean to move us, and they come to mean by moving us. Recent 'simulation theories of language comprehension', from the field of cognitive neuroscience, provide empirical evidence that language processing is not a product of a-modal symbol manipulation but rather involves 'simulations' by certain classes of neurons in areas used for real-world action and perception. As habituation and abstraction increase, however, these embodied simulations 'streamline', becoming narrow schematic 'shadows' of once broad, qualitatively rich simulations. Poems, I suggest, seek to reverse this process by situationally novel variations of language, coming to mean in the broadly embodied sense in which real-world experiences 'mean'. Readers are asked to 'enact' the poem, to 'co-create' its meaning. Where critique traditionally requires that readers resist enactive participation in the aim of objective analysis, the co-creative response - a response 'in kind' by imitation, versioning, or hommage - asks readers to receive and carry forward the enactive unfolding of a poem with a composition of their own. I assert that, by thus responding with - rather than to - poems, we might foster an attentive stance of active receptivity, thereby coming to understand poems as the enactive phenomena they are.

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O trabalho apresenta uma prática cotidiana de produção de textos partindo do léxico a aspectos mais complexos do texto, amparado metodologicamente na Pesquisa-ação, segundo os passos de Michel Thiollent e Maria Amélia Santoro Franco e teoricamente em Margarida Basílio, Maria Aparecida Bacega e Maria Tereza Camargo Biderman (autores que tratam do léxico); Inez Sautchuk, Patrick Charaudeau, Michel Charolles, Teum A. van Dick, Maria da Graça da Costa Val, Irandé Antunes e Othon Moacyr Garcia (teóricos do texto); Evanildo Bechara, Carlos Henrique da Rocha Lima e José Carlos Azeredo (gramáticos). Tem-se como objetivo compreender o fenômeno da produção escrita e as suas implicações morfossintáticas e semânticas nas produções de alunos de Educação de Jovens e Adultos apresentando estratégias de reescritura de textos com o propósito de tornar os alunos produtores de texto com auto-suficiência de textualidade. Investiu-se na compreensão da figura do produtor de texto, bifurcado em aquele que escreve e aquele que monitora o texto antes que este chegue a um virtual leitor. O léxico aparece, em sentido lato, nas mais variadas nuanças semânticas de modo a contribuir para a organização do caos. O texto aparece com a dupla concepção: produto e processo / produção e recepção que transcendem a linearidade. O corpus é analisado quali-quantitativamente, enfatizando-se procedimentos argumentativos na avaliação dos desvios detectados, os quais, em seguida, recebem um tratamento estatístico por meio de um quadro sintetizador das ocorrências mais frequentes e, por fim, um gráfico representativo da evolução de cada aluno e da turma ao longo do processo de pesquisa de campo. É um estudo com resultados animadores por não se restringir ao patamar da investigação, mas, a partir da intervenção do professor-pesquisador, instituir mudanças sobre o elenco em foco / The paper presents a daily practice of text productions from the basis of the lexicon to aspects more complex aspects of the text, sustained methodologically on the Research-action, according to the steps of Michel Thiollent and Maria Amelia Santoro Franco and theoretically in Marguerite Basil, Maria Aparecida Bacega and Maria Tereza Camargo Biderman (authors that dealing with the lexicon); Inez Sautchuk, Patrick Charaudeau, Michel Charolles, Teum A. van Dick, Maria da Graça da Costa Val, Irandé Antunes and othon Moacyr Garcia (text theorists); Evanildo Bechara, Carlos Henrique da Rocha Lima and Jose Carlos Azeredo (grammarians). It has as objective to comprehend the phenomenon of the written production and its morphosyntactic and semantic implications in the production of students of the education of young people and adults presenting strategies of rewriting of texts with the purpose of making the students producers of text with self-sufficiency of textuality. It was invested in the understanding of the figure of the producer of text, branched in that who writes and that one who monitors the text before it comes to a virtual reader. The lexicon appears, in a broad sense, in the most varied semantic nuances in such way to contribute to the organization of chaos. The text appears with double conception:The text appears with double conception: product and process / production and reception that transcend the linearity. The corpus is analyzed quali-quantitatively, emphasizing argumentative procedures in the assessment of the deviations detected, which, then, receive a statistical treatment by means of a synthesizer table of the more frequent occurrences and, lastly a representative graphic of the evolution of each student and the class throughout the process of the field research. It is a study with encouraging results due to no restriction to the level of research, but, from the intervention of the researcher-teacher, institute changes on the cast in focus

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No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2012_Carlos Henrique Tavares de Freitas.pdf: 3041222 bytes, checksum: cb4428c9932879f1a478074aa1ac1c7f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-04-26 / As Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação são elementos importantes para o acesso à informação, a produção de novos conhecimentos e o desenvolvimento científico, estando presentes também no contexto do ensino superior e no ambiente das bibliotecas universitárias, tanto como recursos de informatização dos serviços técnicos e da gestão destas Unidades, quanto no desenvolvimento de produtos e serviços baseados em conteúdos digitais de informação. Nesse sentido, este estudo tem por objetivo investigar as características dos leitores e dos tipos de leitura desenvolvidos na Biblioteca Central da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, considerando que, atualmente, os recursos de leitura e pesquisa tradicionais dividem espaço com novos produtos e serviços, influenciados pelas Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação. Para tanto, envolve uma pesquisa exploratória baseada em uma abordagem qualitativa, tendo como instrumentos de coleta de dados, a observação, o questionário, a entrevista estruturada e a observação participante. A pesquisa de campo foi dividida em duas etapas principais, sendo a primeira, a elaboração de um perfil socioeconômico e cultural, e a segunda etapa, a realização de entrevistas e observações dos processos de navegação dos usuários/leitores da biblioteca. Na primeira etapa, entre outros aspectos, observamos que os leitores da Biblioteca Central correspondem a um público diversificado e dinâmico, composto, em sua maioria por alunos de cursos de graduação que se encontram cadastrados no Sistema Pergamum. A maioria dos usuários/leitores utiliza a biblioteca frequentemente, sendo constatada também uma quantidade significativa de visitantes que utilizam o ambiente de estudo para concursos e similares. A pesquisa acadêmica corresponde à maior razão de uso da biblioteca e, quanto aos produtos e serviços, observou-se que os livros, a consulta local, o serviço de circulação de materiais bibliográficos e a utilização do ambiente para estudo são os recursos mais utilizados pelos leitores, havendo um baixo índice de uso das Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação no ambiente da biblioteca, bem como dos serviços informatizados. A segunda fase da investigação compreendeu três momentos: abordagem dos sujeitos (quando ocorreu o agendamento das entrevistas e observações), entrevista estruturada e observação participante. As entrevistas envolveram questões referentes às características dos leitores, suas relações com as tecnologias, com o ciberespaço, produtos e serviços da Biblioteca Central. A observação participante explorou a solução de três problemas de navegação propostos aos pesquisados, qual seja, a realização de uma pesquisa genérica, a realização de uma pesquisa acadêmica e a exploração dos serviços on-line da Biblioteca Central (pesquisas no catálogo eletrônico, reservas, renovações etc.). Concluiu-se que todos os usuários pesquisados nesta etapa do estudo apresentaram características de leitores imersivos, mas alguns também se destacaram como leitores meditativos, sendo que estes perfis são influenciados pelo ambiente, situação e objetivos de pesquisa, bem como pela cultura dos leitores. Além disso, se por um lado, o fato de serem leitores imersivos não significa que prefiram utilizar apenas o ciberespaço, em detrimento dos livros e demais materiais impressos, esta mesma prerrogativa também não significa que estes leitores conhecem, dominam e utilizam amplamente os serviços eletrônicos da Biblioteca Central da UFMT. / The Technologies of the Information and Communication are important elements for the access to the information, the production of new knowledge and the scientific development, being present also in the context of the higher education and in the environment of the academical libraries, as much as resources of computerize of the technical services and of the administration of these Units, as in the development of products and services based on digital contents of information. Thereby, this study has for objective to investigate the readers' characteristics and of the reading types developed at the Central Library of the Mato Grosso Federal University, considering that, nowadays, the reading resources and traditional research divide space with new products and services, influenced by the Technologies of the Information and Communication. Accordingly it involves an exploratory research based in a qualitative approach, tends as instruments of collection of data, the observation, the questionnaire, the structured interview and the participant observation. The field research was divided in two main stages, the first main was the elaboration of a socioeconomic and cultural profile, and the second stage was the accomplishment of interviews and observations of the processes of navigation of the users/readers of the library. In the first stage, among other aspects, we observed that the readers of the Central Library correspond to a diversified and dynamic public, composed, in its majority for students of degree courses that they are registered in the Pergamum System. Most of the users/readers uses the library frequently, being also verified a significant amount of visitors that use the environment study for contests and similar. The academic research corresponds to the largest reason of use of the library and, and the products and services, it was observed that the books, the local consultation, the service of circulation of bibliographical materials and the use of the atmosphere for study are the resources more used by the readers, having a low index of use of the Technologies of the Information and Communication in the environment of the library, like of the computerized services. The second phase of the investigation understood three moments: approach of the subjects (when it happened the scheduling of the interviews and observations), structured interview and participant observation. The interviews involved questions about the readers' characteristics, their relationships with the technologies, with the cyberspace, products and services of the Central Library. The participant observation explored the solution of three navigation problems proposed to those researched: the accomplishment of a generic research, the accomplishment of an academic research and the exploration of the on-line services of the Central Library (researches in the electronic catalog, reservations, renewals etc.). It was concluded that all of the users researched in this stage of the study presented characteristics of immersive readers, but some readers also stand out like a meditative readers, and these profiles are influenced by the atmosphere, situation and research objectives, as them culture. Besides, on the hand, the fact of they be immersive readers it doesn't mean that they prefer just use the cyberspace, to the detriment of the books and too much materials printed papers, this same prerogative doesn't also mean that these readers know, they dominate and they use the electronic services of the Central Library of UFMT thoroughly.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2012_Carlos Henrique Tavares de Freitas.pdf: 3041222 bytes, checksum: cb4428c9932879f1a478074aa1ac1c7f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-04-26 / As Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação são elementos importantes para o acesso à informação, a produção de novos conhecimentos e o desenvolvimento científico, estando presentes também no contexto do ensino superior e no ambiente das bibliotecas universitárias, tanto como recursos de informatização dos serviços técnicos e da gestão destas Unidades, quanto no desenvolvimento de produtos e serviços baseados em conteúdos digitais de informação. Nesse sentido, este estudo tem por objetivo investigar as características dos leitores e dos tipos de leitura desenvolvidos na Biblioteca Central da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, considerando que, atualmente, os recursos de leitura e pesquisa tradicionais dividem espaço com novos produtos e serviços, influenciados pelas Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação. Para tanto, envolve uma pesquisa exploratória baseada em uma abordagem qualitativa, tendo como instrumentos de coleta de dados, a observação, o questionário, a entrevista estruturada e a observação participante. A pesquisa de campo foi dividida em duas etapas principais, sendo a primeira, a elaboração de um perfil socioeconômico e cultural, e a segunda etapa, a realização de entrevistas e observações dos processos de navegação dos usuários/leitores da biblioteca. Na primeira etapa, entre outros aspectos, observamos que os leitores da Biblioteca Central correspondem a um público diversificado e dinâmico, composto, em sua maioria por alunos de cursos de graduação que se encontram cadastrados no Sistema Pergamum. A maioria dos usuários/leitores utiliza a biblioteca frequentemente, sendo constatada também uma quantidade significativa de visitantes que utilizam o ambiente de estudo para concursos e similares. A pesquisa acadêmica corresponde à maior razão de uso da biblioteca e, quanto aos produtos e serviços, observou-se que os livros, a consulta local, o serviço de circulação de materiais bibliográficos e a utilização do ambiente para estudo são os recursos mais utilizados pelos leitores, havendo um baixo índice de uso das Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação no ambiente da biblioteca, bem como dos serviços informatizados. A segunda fase da investigação compreendeu três momentos: abordagem dos sujeitos (quando ocorreu o agendamento das entrevistas e observações), entrevista estruturada e observação participante. As entrevistas envolveram questões referentes às características dos leitores, suas relações com as tecnologias, com o ciberespaço, produtos e serviços da Biblioteca Central. A observação participante explorou a solução de três problemas de navegação propostos aos pesquisados, qual seja, a realização de uma pesquisa genérica, a realização de uma pesquisa acadêmica e a exploração dos serviços on-line da Biblioteca Central (pesquisas no catálogo eletrônico, reservas, renovações etc.). Concluiu-se que todos os usuários pesquisados nesta etapa do estudo apresentaram características de leitores imersivos, mas alguns também se destacaram como leitores meditativos, sendo que estes perfis são influenciados pelo ambiente, situação e objetivos de pesquisa, bem como pela cultura dos leitores. Além disso, se por um lado, o fato de serem leitores imersivos não significa que prefiram utilizar apenas o ciberespaço, em detrimento dos livros e demais materiais impressos, esta mesma prerrogativa também não significa que estes leitores conhecem, dominam e utilizam amplamente os serviços eletrônicos da Biblioteca Central da UFMT. / The Technologies of the Information and Communication are important elements for the access to the information, the production of new knowledge and the scientific development, being present also in the context of the higher education and in the environment of the academical libraries, as much as resources of computerize of the technical services and of the administration of these Units, as in the development of products and services based on digital contents of information. Thereby, this study has for objective to investigate the readers' characteristics and of the reading types developed at the Central Library of the Mato Grosso Federal University, considering that, nowadays, the reading resources and traditional research divide space with new products and services, influenced by the Technologies of the Information and Communication. Accordingly it involves an exploratory research based in a qualitative approach, tends as instruments of collection of data, the observation, the questionnaire, the structured interview and the participant observation. The field research was divided in two main stages, the first main was the elaboration of a socioeconomic and cultural profile, and the second stage was the accomplishment of interviews and observations of the processes of navigation of the users/readers of the library. In the first stage, among other aspects, we observed that the readers of the Central Library correspond to a diversified and dynamic public, composed, in its majority for students of degree courses that they are registered in the Pergamum System. Most of the users/readers uses the library frequently, being also verified a significant amount of visitors that use the environment study for contests and similar. The academic research corresponds to the largest reason of use of the library and, and the products and services, it was observed that the books, the local consultation, the service of circulation of bibliographical materials and the use of the atmosphere for study are the resources more used by the readers, having a low index of use of the Technologies of the Information and Communication in the environment of the library, like of the computerized services. The second phase of the investigation understood three moments: approach of the subjects (when it happened the scheduling of the interviews and observations), structured interview and participant observation. The interviews involved questions about the readers' characteristics, their relationships with the technologies, with the cyberspace, products and services of the Central Library. The participant observation explored the solution of three navigation problems proposed to those researched: the accomplishment of a generic research, the accomplishment of an academic research and the exploration of the on-line services of the Central Library (researches in the electronic catalog, reservations, renewals etc.). It was concluded that all of the users researched in this stage of the study presented characteristics of immersive readers, but some readers also stand out like a meditative readers, and these profiles are influenced by the atmosphere, situation and research objectives, as them culture. Besides, on the hand, the fact of they be immersive readers it doesn't mean that they prefer just use the cyberspace, to the detriment of the books and too much materials printed papers, this same prerogative doesn't also mean that these readers know, they dominate and they use the electronic services of the Central Library of UFMT thoroughly.

O trabalho apresenta uma prática cotidiana de produção de textos partindo do léxico a aspectos mais complexos do texto, amparado metodologicamente na Pesquisa-ação, segundo os passos de Michel Thiollent e Maria Amélia Santoro Franco e teoricamente em Margarida Basílio, Maria Aparecida Bacega e Maria Tereza Camargo Biderman (autores que tratam do léxico); Inez Sautchuk, Patrick Charaudeau, Michel Charolles, Teum A. van Dick, Maria da Graça da Costa Val, Irandé Antunes e Othon Moacyr Garcia (teóricos do texto); Evanildo Bechara, Carlos Henrique da Rocha Lima e José Carlos Azeredo (gramáticos). Tem-se como objetivo compreender o fenômeno da produção escrita e as suas implicações morfossintáticas e semânticas nas produções de alunos de Educação de Jovens e Adultos apresentando estratégias de reescritura de textos com o propósito de tornar os alunos produtores de texto com auto-suficiência de textualidade. Investiu-se na compreensão da figura do produtor de texto, bifurcado em aquele que escreve e aquele que monitora o texto antes que este chegue a um virtual leitor. O léxico aparece, em sentido lato, nas mais variadas nuanças semânticas de modo a contribuir para a organização do caos. O texto aparece com a dupla concepção: produto e processo / produção e recepção que transcendem a linearidade. O corpus é analisado quali-quantitativamente, enfatizando-se procedimentos argumentativos na avaliação dos desvios detectados, os quais, em seguida, recebem um tratamento estatístico por meio de um quadro sintetizador das ocorrências mais frequentes e, por fim, um gráfico representativo da evolução de cada aluno e da turma ao longo do processo de pesquisa de campo. É um estudo com resultados animadores por não se restringir ao patamar da investigação, mas, a partir da intervenção do professor-pesquisador, instituir mudanças sobre o elenco em foco / The paper presents a daily practice of text productions from the basis of the lexicon to aspects more complex aspects of the text, sustained methodologically on the Research-action, according to the steps of Michel Thiollent and Maria Amelia Santoro Franco and theoretically in Marguerite Basil, Maria Aparecida Bacega and Maria Tereza Camargo Biderman (authors that dealing with the lexicon); Inez Sautchuk, Patrick Charaudeau, Michel Charolles, Teum A. van Dick, Maria da Graça da Costa Val, Irandé Antunes and othon Moacyr Garcia (text theorists); Evanildo Bechara, Carlos Henrique da Rocha Lima and Jose Carlos Azeredo (grammarians). It has as objective to comprehend the phenomenon of the written production and its morphosyntactic and semantic implications in the production of students of the education of young people and adults presenting strategies of rewriting of texts with the purpose of making the students producers of text with self-sufficiency of textuality. It was invested in the understanding of the figure of the producer of text, branched in that who writes and that one who monitors the text before it comes to a virtual reader. The lexicon appears, in a broad sense, in the most varied semantic nuances in such way to contribute to the organization of chaos. The text appears with double conception:The text appears with double conception: product and process / production and reception that transcend the linearity. The corpus is analyzed quali-quantitatively, emphasizing argumentative procedures in the assessment of the deviations detected, which, then, receive a statistical treatment by means of a synthesizer table of the more frequent occurrences and, lastly a representative graphic of the evolution of each student and the class throughout the process of the field research. It is a study with encouraging results due to no restriction to the level of research, but, from the intervention of the researcher-teacher, institute changes on the cast in focus