Book chapter
readingS
Towards a Critical Sociology of Reading Pedagogy: Papers of the XII World Congress on Reading, pp.191-210
John Benjamins Publishing
1991
Abstract
The theme of this paper is straightforward: it argues that there is no unified, prespecifiable thing or practice which counts always and only as reading. Put another way: it is always possible to defeat a definite and distinct boundary between a practice or thing called reading and its opposite, not-reading. That is to say: no one has much of a clue as to the specifiability of the domain of not-reading. Without its opposite a concept's meaning is at best problematic. This does not mean that everything can be reading and that when it is and isn't depends on unforeseeable matters
Details
- Title
- readingS
- Authors/Creators
- A. McHoul (Author/Creator)
- Contributors
- C. Baker (Editor)A. Luke (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Towards a Critical Sociology of Reading Pedagogy: Papers of the XII World Congress on Reading, pp.191-210
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing; Amsterdam, Holland
- Identifiers
- 991005541681607891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Humanities
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
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