04998nam a22006135i 4500 978-3-031-52753-1 DE-He213 20251030111742.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240320s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031527531 978-3-031-52753-1 10.1007/978-3-031-52753-1 doi P129-138.7222 CF bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh CF thema Boucher, Abigail. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 73904 Reading Habits in the COVID-19 Pandemic [electronic resource] : An Applied Linguistic Perspective / by Abigail Boucher, Marcello Giovanelli, Chloe Harrison, Robbie Love, Caroline Godfrey. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. X, 147 p. 1 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Reading, Genre, and Crisis -- Chapter 3: Reading and Time -- Chapter 4: Reading as a Coping Strategy -- Chapter 5: Re-reading in the Pandemic -- Chapter 6: Lockdown Experiences of Social Reading. -Chapter 7: Conclusion. This book presents and analyses the results of the Lockdown Library Project survey, using a range of quantitative and qualitative approaches to provide a unique insight into the ways in which the first UK COVID-19 lockdown affected public reading habits. The authors begin by outlining the background to the study, the research methodology and design, and an overview of the headlines of the data, before going on to survey the literature on the relationship between pandemics, literature (especially the role played by genre and popular fiction) and reading habits. They then examine how participants reported that the lockdown period had affected the amount that they read; how they accessed books and discussed their reading with others; the use of reading as a coping strategy; and returning to re-read books that offered familiarity, reliability, and nostalgia. Finally, the concluding chapter brings together the overall findings of the project and briefly outlines future work in the field. This book will be of interest to academics in fields such as literary and genre studies, applied linguistics, corpus linguistics, stylistics, health humanities, and sociology, as well as practitioners working in education, in bibliotherapy, and in libraries. Abigail Boucher is Lecturer in English Literature at Aston University, UK. She specialises in genre and popular fiction of the long nineteenth century, with interests in the body, class, and medicine and science in literature. Marcello Giovanelli is Reader in Literary Linguistics at Aston University, UK. His research is in the area of stylistics and specifically in cognitive and empirical approaches to reading literature within different contexts. Chloe Harrison is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Aston University, UK. Her research explores cognitive stylistics, reader response studies and contemporary fiction. Robbie Love is Lecturer in English Language at Aston University, UK. He is a corpus linguist, specialising in contemporary spoken discourse, and advocates for the application of corpus approaches to address societal challenges. Caroline Godfrey is Researcher in Applied Linguistics at Aston University, UK. Her work concentrates on the language used to conceptualise English education in the UK, with a particular focus on the use of metaphor. Applied linguistics. Film genres. 73905 Language and languages Style. 66672 Sociology. 57193 Leisure. 73906 Literary form. 73907 Applied Linguistics. Genre Studies. 73908 Stylistics. 72420 Leisure Studies. 73909 Literary Genre. 73910 Giovanelli, Marcello. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 73911 Harrison, Chloe. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 73912 Love, Robbie. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 73913 Godfrey, Caroline. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 73914 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031527524 Printed edition: 9783031527548 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52753-1 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 58628 58628