Reader’s experience of style aspects reflected in online book reviews: a tentative model of style perception

Description

We aim to investigate how readers perceive style. For this we study how often and in what terms book reviewers note features of style. The investigation consists of three steps. We annotated 200 online reviews to indicate mentions of style and aspects of style, and which words reviewers use that refer to style. Second, we use these words to query a corpus of N= 382,207 reviews to find the most used characteristics of style. Third, we focus on notions of style related to readers’ experience to develop a tentative model of reader perception of style.

Period	29 Sept 2023
Event title	IGEL 2023: Rhythm, Speed, Path: Spatiotemporal Experiences in Narrative, Poetry, and Drama
Event type	Conference
Conference number	19th
Location	Monopoly, ItalyShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International