Intelligibility and *Context in Reader Responses to Contact Literary Text

This study thus focuses on both the texts, the reader responses of capable readers to these two texts, and the interaction of the various contexts of reader, writer, and the text in analyzing what is both unique and potentially problematic in the reading of contact literary texts. Utilizing a sociocultural framework of text and context developed by Halliday and Hasan (1985) as well as an intelligibility model developed by Smith (1992), the reading of these two samples of contact literary text are examined for their linguistic, critical, and pedagogical implications in the broader use of contact literary texts.

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

2015

Author dc:creator

• Courtright, Marguerite Sue

Contributors dc:contributor

• Erica McClure

• Literature, African

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9996625

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/80448