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Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods
Edited by Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 36] 2021
► pp. 61–80

Chapter 4
Towards an empirical stylistics of critical reception

The oppositional reader in political discourse

| Sheffield Hallam University
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Text World Theory and critical reception
  • 3.Resisting “out loud”
  • 4.Resisting the writer (…and the other discourse participants)
  • 5. Resisting the text-world
  • 6.Conclusion: towards a stylistics of critical reception
  • References
Published online: 8 February 2021
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