Re: How do YOU read?
KEN GOODMAN (KGOODMAN who-is-at CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU)
Fri, 15 Dec 1995 09:45:54 -0700 (MST)
Angel's comment makes me want to add a note to my prior comment:
I'm a realist. It occurred to me that my exlpication of reading as a
transaction which results in construction of a reader's text and meaning might
make me sound like a relativist. I believe the text with which the readeer
transacts is real- that's what makes it possible for us to study the
properties- even the meaning potential of a text- independent of any
reader's transaction with it. But when we look at the reading of a text
-our own included- we are looking at something equally real- the transaction
of reader and text. So in miscue analysis we compare expected and observed
responses (in oral reading) When these are not the same, that by definition is a miscue. We can come up with a reasonable expected response because the text is
real. Though on occasion we find ourselves limited by our own transactions-
one case that comes to mind is treating "yo" as an unexpected response to ewe
and later discovering that that is the common way of waying ewe in Ireland and
Eaastern Canada.
Ken Goodman