Perspectives on Reading

Which perspective focuses on the reader's knowledge of textual conventions?

• Experiential

• Social

• Textual

• Cultural

What does the Experiential perspective emphasize?

• Reader's cognitive processes

• Reader's engagement

• Reader's cultural role

• Reader's social perceptions

The Psychological perspective deals with which processes?

• Textual conventions

• Social perceptions

• Cognitive or subconscious

• Cultural attitudes

Who is the implied reader according to Iser (1974)?

• The author of the text

• A random individual

• Like the target audience

• A professional critic

What does the implied reader draw on?

• Personal experiences

• Knowledge of genres and textual features

• Historical events

• Scientific data

According to Wolfgang Iser who is the "actual reader"?

• the reader who brings their own knowledge to the text

• the target audience

• the perfect reader who understands everything

• the person who accepts the meaning of the text

What does the concept of "Multiple readings" include?

• Invited, alternative, negotiated, resistant, oppositional

• Implied, explicit, hidden, overt

• Textual, contextual, subtextual, intertextual

• Literal, figurative, symbolic, allegorical

What are invited readings?

• Readings that are difficult to understand

• Readings that are the most literal and obvious

• Readings that are fictional

• Readings that are only for experts

What does the text imply about cultural perspective?

• readers negotiate the meaning according to age

• readers negotiate the meaning according to their attitudes and values

• readers negotiate the meaning according to knowledge of genres

• readers negotiate the meaning according to how they feel when the read

Readers determine experience with new texts in terms of their experience with previous texts

• resistant reading

• cultural perspective

• the loop

• intertextuality