Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Reading Groups and the Study of Literary Reading 2. Social Reading and the Cognitive Stylistics of Literary Texts 3. Mimetic Reading and Reader Identities 4. Co-reading and the Contextualisation of Response 5. Reading Groups and Institutional Discourse 6. Reading Online 7. Conclusion: Developing an Integrated Analysis of Reading Group Discourse

About the Author

David Peplow is a Lecturer in English Language at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. His research interests include discourse analysis, stylistics, and health humanities.

Joan Swann is Emeritus Professor of English Language at the Open University, UK. She is a sociolinguist with a particular interest in the analysis of spoken interaction.

Paola Trimarco is an Associate Professor at University of Nizwa, in the Sultanate of Oman. Her specialties are digital communication, literary stylistics and sociolinguistics.

Sara Whiteley is a Lecturer in Language and Literature at The University of Sheffield, UK who specialises in cognitive stylistics and cognitive linguistic discourse analysis.