Reading poems: an empirical and intercultural study

Reading poems: an empirical and intercultural study

This article aims to reveal in a comparative and empirical way how subjects with English cultural backgrounds or Chinese cultural backgrounds read, engage with and interpret literary texts and how they respond to the culturally loaded discourse by writers from the same or different cultural backg...

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Main Author: Chang, Zonglin
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Language:English
Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2005
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3119/
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spelling ukm-31192016-12-14T06:33:39Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3119/ Reading poems: an empirical and intercultural study Chang, Zonglin This article aims to reveal in a comparative and empirical way how subjects with English cultural backgrounds or Chinese cultural backgrounds read, engage with and interpret literary texts and how they respond to the culturally loaded discourse by writers from the same or different cultural backgrounds. The study is made to see if the Chinese subjects are more responsive to the imagery poems than English subjects and if there are different sequences in their image formation. It intends to reveal how different cultural and linguistic schemata are used by subjects from both Chinese and English cultures when they read culturally sensitive literary materials and to exemplify how the subjects read and respond in terms of their different schemata which result in the differences and similarities in their interpretations and responses in their literary reading. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2005 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3119/1/2.pdf Chang, Zonglin (2005) Reading poems: an empirical and intercultural study. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 10 . pp. 87-111. ISSN 0128-5157 http://www.ukm.my/~ppbl/3L/3LArchives.html
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description This article aims to reveal in a comparative and empirical way how subjects with English cultural backgrounds or Chinese cultural backgrounds read, engage with and interpret literary texts and how they respond to the culturally loaded discourse by writers from the same or different cultural backgrounds. The study is made to see if the Chinese subjects are more responsive to the imagery poems than English subjects and if there are different sequences in their image formation. It intends to reveal how different cultural and linguistic schemata are used by subjects from both Chinese and English cultures when they read culturally sensitive literary materials and to exemplify how the subjects read and respond in terms of their different schemata which result in the differences and similarities in their interpretations and responses in their literary reading.
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author Chang, Zonglin
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title Reading poems: an empirical and intercultural study
title_short Reading poems: an empirical and intercultural study
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title_fullStr Reading poems: an empirical and intercultural study
title_full_unstemmed Reading poems: an empirical and intercultural study
title_sort reading poems: an empirical and intercultural study
publisher Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
publishDate 2005
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3119/
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