Dr Paola Trimarco is a writer, linguist and Honorary Associate of The Open University. She is currently Book Reviews Editor for Open Learning. She has been an Associate Professor at the University of Nizwa in Oman, where she taught on their MA in English Language. She completed her PhD in Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Her publications include The Discourse of Reading Groups (co-author, 2015, Routledge) Digital Textuality (2014, Palgrave Macmillan), three EFL Readers for Penguin Books and scholarly chapters in Teaching Short Stories (2010, Palgrave Macmillan), Pedagogical Stylistics (2012, Continuum) and The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics (2014, Routledge). Her articles and reviews in linguistics have appeared in The Journal of Literary Studies , Language and Literature, Teaching English, International Journal of Education and Dictionaries. She is a regular contributor to the Literary Encyclopedia with articles on the works of Joyce Carol Oates, Kazuo Ishiguro and Roald Dahl.
Contents:
1. Introduction: Reading Groups and the Study of Literary Reading
2. Social Reading a... more Contents: 1. Introduction: Reading Groups and the Study of Literary Reading 2. Social Reading and the Cognitive Stylistics of Literary Texts 3. Mimetic Reading and Reader Identities 4. Co-reading and the Contextualisation of Response 5. Reading Groups and Institutional Discourse 6. Reading Online 7. Conclusion: Developing an Integrated Analysis of Reading Group Discourse
From topics such as digital literacy and online communities, to questions surrounding identity an... more From topics such as digital literacy and online communities, to questions surrounding identity and hybridity, Digital Textuality is an essential guide for anybody who wants to understand how the English language is being used in new media technologies.
Covering a range of genres such as collaborative and hypertext fiction, social media and news sites, this is required reading for students of language and linguistics, media and cultural studies.
Digital Textuality includes:
• Numerous examples drawn from real-life texts that reflect this exciting and fast-evolving field
• Easy-to-understand linguistic approaches that reflect the very latest in language-based research
• Additional readings in every chapter, with activities and sample projects to give the reader ideas for further reflection and study
This paper investigates how action research can be used to develop genre-approaches to teaching u... more This paper investigates how action research can be used to develop genre-approaches to teaching using a case study of teaching research article (RA) abstract writing on a course in Japan for science and technology students. This study involved two pedagogies placed within genre-awareness approaches, with moves being taught at different stages for each classroom. In addition to the teacher’s observations and a questionnaire to evaluate students’ perceptions, written drafts from both groups were analysed at two stages. Our analysis reveals that earlier intervention in teaching moves helped students to better construct their abstracts and that language-based activities played a role in improving students’ abstract writing without moves-based instruction. Moreover, the exercise of conducting this study in an action research framework highlighted the advantages of using a cyclic framework which allows for timely intervention based on teacher observation and critical evaluation of the tea...
This essay examines how readers interpret and interact with miniature fiction by completing the n... more This essay examines how readers interpret and interact with miniature fiction by completing the narratives in these extremely short stories. This is not to suggest that more traditional short stories have always provided complete narratives, but what we have found with miniature fiction is that the reader is
Contents:
1. Introduction: Reading Groups and the Study of Literary Reading
2. Social Reading a... more Contents: 1. Introduction: Reading Groups and the Study of Literary Reading 2. Social Reading and the Cognitive Stylistics of Literary Texts 3. Mimetic Reading and Reader Identities 4. Co-reading and the Contextualisation of Response 5. Reading Groups and Institutional Discourse 6. Reading Online 7. Conclusion: Developing an Integrated Analysis of Reading Group Discourse
From topics such as digital literacy and online communities, to questions surrounding identity an... more From topics such as digital literacy and online communities, to questions surrounding identity and hybridity, Digital Textuality is an essential guide for anybody who wants to understand how the English language is being used in new media technologies.
Covering a range of genres such as collaborative and hypertext fiction, social media and news sites, this is required reading for students of language and linguistics, media and cultural studies.
Digital Textuality includes:
• Numerous examples drawn from real-life texts that reflect this exciting and fast-evolving field
• Easy-to-understand linguistic approaches that reflect the very latest in language-based research
• Additional readings in every chapter, with activities and sample projects to give the reader ideas for further reflection and study
This paper investigates how action research can be used to develop genre-approaches to teaching u... more This paper investigates how action research can be used to develop genre-approaches to teaching using a case study of teaching research article (RA) abstract writing on a course in Japan for science and technology students. This study involved two pedagogies placed within genre-awareness approaches, with moves being taught at different stages for each classroom. In addition to the teacher’s observations and a questionnaire to evaluate students’ perceptions, written drafts from both groups were analysed at two stages. Our analysis reveals that earlier intervention in teaching moves helped students to better construct their abstracts and that language-based activities played a role in improving students’ abstract writing without moves-based instruction. Moreover, the exercise of conducting this study in an action research framework highlighted the advantages of using a cyclic framework which allows for timely intervention based on teacher observation and critical evaluation of the tea...
This essay examines how readers interpret and interact with miniature fiction by completing the n... more This essay examines how readers interpret and interact with miniature fiction by completing the narratives in these extremely short stories. This is not to suggest that more traditional short stories have always provided complete narratives, but what we have found with miniature fiction is that the reader is
In spite of a smattering of Shakespeare, the focus is on 20th-century plays, but the historical d... more In spite of a smattering of Shakespeare, the focus is on 20th-century plays, but the historical development of drama, and the question of locating a play historically are not addressed in the selection of playtexts. The book has the evidence for claims about modern plays, but whether these ...
Gucci is famous for beautiful and expensive clothes and accessories. The business started with on... more Gucci is famous for beautiful and expensive clothes and accessories. The business started with one small store in Italy, today there are Gucci stores all over the world. Gucci made Italian design and fashion famous all over the world. A fascinating look at the Gucci family and their famous company.
This talk is about a work-in-progress study of two online book groups and six e-zines, where read... more This talk is about a work-in-progress study of two online book groups and six e-zines, where readers post their comments and engage in dialogue about literature. This study looks at the content of the comments in terms of Act-of-Reading, Ideal Text, Evaluation, Interpretation and Language. The framework for analysis draws primarily from pragmatic stylistics, considering features, such as hedging and grounding.
This presentation will discuss computer-assisted assessments recently developed at University Cam... more This presentation will discuss computer-assisted assessments recently developed at University Campus Suffolk for the teaching of English Language Analysis to first-year undergraduates. Two of these assessments were self-assessments, using multiple-choice and matching formats; these will be considered in the context of the affordances of e-learning environments when compared with traditional paper-based versions of such testing formats. This presentation will also look at formative essay assignments submitted on-line, considering the practical and pedagogical implications of this approach; for these on-line submissions, technologies used at The Open University will also be discussed along side those used at University Campus Suffolk.
Dr Paola Trimarco School of Arts and Humanities University Campus Suffolk
These slides were used in the context of a Discourse Analysis course at the University of Nizwa 2... more These slides were used in the context of a Discourse Analysis course at the University of Nizwa 2014-15.
This is about teaching short short stories (flash fiction), aimed at teachers of literature and c... more This is about teaching short short stories (flash fiction), aimed at teachers of literature and creative writing. The approaches discussed are situated in pedagogical stylistics, borrowing from relevance theory and pragmatics.
In spite of a smattering of Shakespeare, the focus is on 20th-century plays, but the historical d... more In spite of a smattering of Shakespeare, the focus is on 20th-century plays, but the historical development of drama, and the question of locating a play historically are not addressed in the selection of playtexts. The book has the evidence for claims about modern plays, but whether these ...
In spite of a smattering of Shakespeare, the focus is on 20th-century plays, but the historical d... more In spite of a smattering of Shakespeare, the focus is on 20th-century plays, but the historical development of drama, and the question of locating a play historically are not addressed in the selection of playtexts. The book has the evidence for claims about modern plays, but whether these ...
This paper investigates how action research can be used to develop genre-approaches to teaching u... more This paper investigates how action research can be used to develop genre-approaches to teaching using a case study of teaching research article (RA) abstract writing on a course in Japan for science and technology students. This study involved two pedagogies placed within genre-awareness approaches, with moves being taught at different stages for each classroom. In addition to the teacher's observations and a questionnaire to evaluate students' perceptions, written drafts from both groups were analysed at two stages. Our analysis reveals that earlier intervention in teaching moves helped students to better construct their abstracts and that language-based activities played a role in improving students' abstract writing without moves-based instruction. Moreover, the exercise of conducting this study in an action research framework highlighted the advantages of using a cyclic framework which allows for timely intervention based on teacher observation and critical evaluation of the teaching and learning context as the task progresses.
The creation of contrasting worlds within a given text is a common literary technique in fictiona... more The creation of contrasting worlds within a given text is a common literary technique in fictional prose. While such contrasts are invoked by some sort of “textual” parallelism, the term “parallelism” in literary stylistics is usually reserved for the specific study of text units, namely sentences in prose and lines in poetry. Furthermore, studies in fictional prose have approached textual parallelism with focus on narrative style or organisation of text, and not the stylistic effects at the lexical level. To examine such parallelism in terms of lexis, one needs to visit semantic theories, where the terminology to describe lexical opposites exists; it does so, however, apart from literary studies, and subsequently, requires expansion. Thus, this paper examines lexical opposition in fictional prose by offering a taxonomy based primarily on D.A. Cruse (1988) and applying it to the parallelism found in Ursula Le Guin's short story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”. Specifically, following a discussion of the general features of language found in the Le Guin text, this study focuses on the use of adjectives as lexemes of semantic opposition.Die skepping van kontrasterende wêrelde binne ‘n gegewe teks is ‘n algemene literêre tegniek in fiksionele prosa. Hoewel sulke kontraste deur een of ander soort “tekstuele” parallelisme opgeroep word, word die term “parallelisme” gewoonlikin literêre stilistiek gereserveer vir die spesifieke studie van tekseenhede, naamlik sinne in prosa en versreëls in poësie. Daarbenewens het studies in fiksionele prosa tekstuele parallelisme benader vanuit ‘n fokus op narratiewe styl of teksorganisasie en nie vanuit die stilistieke effekte op die leksikale vlak nie. Om sulke parallelisme op grond van leksis te ondersoek, is dit nodig om semantiese teorieë in aanmerking te neem, waar die terminologie bestaan om leksikale opposisie te beskryf; hierdie beskrywing sluit egter literêre studies uit en gevolglik benodig dit uitbreiding. Hierdie artikel ondersoek dus leksikale opposisie in fiksionele prosa deur ‘n taksonomie aan te bied wat hoofsaaklik gebaseer is op D.A. Cruse (1988) en dit toe te pas op die parallelisme in Ursla Le Guin se kortverhaal “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”. Na ‘n bespreking van die algemene kenmerke van die taal in die Le Guin‐teks, fokus hierdie studie spesifiek op die gebruik van adjektiewe as lekseme van semantiese opposisie.
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Books by Paola Trimarco
1. Introduction: Reading Groups and the Study of Literary Reading
2. Social Reading and the Cognitive Stylistics of Literary Texts
3. Mimetic Reading and Reader Identities
4. Co-reading and the Contextualisation of Response
5. Reading Groups and Institutional Discourse
6. Reading Online
7. Conclusion: Developing an Integrated Analysis of Reading Group Discourse
Covering a range of genres such as collaborative and hypertext fiction, social media and news sites, this is required reading for students of language and linguistics, media and cultural studies.
Digital Textuality includes:
• Numerous examples drawn from real-life texts that reflect this exciting and fast-evolving field
• Easy-to-understand linguistic approaches that reflect the very latest in language-based research
• Additional readings in every chapter, with activities and sample projects to give the reader ideas for further reflection and study
Papers by Paola Trimarco
1. Introduction: Reading Groups and the Study of Literary Reading
2. Social Reading and the Cognitive Stylistics of Literary Texts
3. Mimetic Reading and Reader Identities
4. Co-reading and the Contextualisation of Response
5. Reading Groups and Institutional Discourse
6. Reading Online
7. Conclusion: Developing an Integrated Analysis of Reading Group Discourse
Covering a range of genres such as collaborative and hypertext fiction, social media and news sites, this is required reading for students of language and linguistics, media and cultural studies.
Digital Textuality includes:
• Numerous examples drawn from real-life texts that reflect this exciting and fast-evolving field
• Easy-to-understand linguistic approaches that reflect the very latest in language-based research
• Additional readings in every chapter, with activities and sample projects to give the reader ideas for further reflection and study
Dr Paola Trimarco
School of Arts and Humanities
University Campus Suffolk