LEADER 04600nam 22006735 450 001 9910845500503321 005 20240321192919.0 010 $a3-031-52753-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-52753-1 035 $a(CKB)31135888400041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31225652 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31225652 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-52753-1 035 $a(EXLCZ)9931135888400041 100 $a20240320d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aReading Habits in the COVID-19 Pandemic $eAn Applied Linguistic Perspective /$fby Abigail Boucher, Marcello Giovanelli, Chloe Harrison, Robbie Love, Caroline Godfrey 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (151 pages) 311 $a3-031-52752-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aApplied linguistics 606 $aFilm genres 606 $aLanguage and languages$xStyle 606 $aSociology 606 $aLeisure 606 $aLiterary form 606 $aApplied Linguistics 606 $aGenre Studies 606 $aStylistics 606 $aLeisure Studies 606 $aLiterary Genre 615 0$aApplied linguistics. 615 0$aFilm genres. 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xStyle. 615 0$aSociology. 615 0$aLeisure. 615 0$aLiterary form. 615 14$aApplied Linguistics. 615 24$aGenre Studies. 615 24$aStylistics. 615 24$aLeisure Studies. 615 24$aLiterary Genre. 676 $a028.90941 700 $aBoucher$b Abigail$01426852 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910845500503321 996 $aReading Habits in the COVID-19 Pandemic$94270654 997 $aUNINA