8 Readers reading: The intertextual links of able readers using multiple passages

This study chronicled the intertextual links generated by 8 able readers as they read a five-passage tableau. Each reader silently read the passages and reported aloud their thoughts during a $2{1\over2}$ to 3 hour session. Three scholarly paths--cognitive psychology, semiotics, and literary theory--were used as guide posts for constructing a framework to analyze the intertextual links (i.e., the connections made among textual resources) evidenced in the students' think-aloud episodes. The analyses revealed two general types of intertextual links. The first were those links between ideas, events, and people. Readers referenced and maneuvered among a wide array of textual resources, yet availed themselves to these resources in different patterns of distribution depending upon passage and reader characteristics. The second type were those links between readers and the passages. The political dimensions of students' linking were revealed by the three reader/tableau discourse stances they adopted: logocentric, intertextual, and resistant.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Hartman, Douglas K.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Pearson, P. David
• Spiro, Rand J.
• Stephens, Diane
• Copeland, Kathleen

• Education, Reading

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1991 Hartman, Douglas Keith

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9136611
(UMI)AAI9136611

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/23393