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We like to talk about the books we like, whether as youngsters being introduced through picture books to the power and patterning of language, or as teachers or students enthusing about texts, or finding new insights within them. Modern approaches to reading now mean that oral discourse in literary contexts includes not only talk about texts but also talk within them, whether through imaginative responses to character and conflict or, post Bakhtin, through critical awareness of the intrinsically dialogic nature of literary language.
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McGonigal, J. (1997). Using Oral Discourse in Literary Studies. In: Davies, B., Corson, D. (eds) Oral Discourse and Education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4417-9_25
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