A Study on the Reader’s Role and Communication Modes in Interpreting Novel

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This paper aims to research reader’s role and communication modes in interpreting novel. To achieve this, this paper analyses Cho Se-Hee’s ≪A Small Ball a Dwarf Fired≫ and it’s interpretive texts. First of all, I examine narrative theories on readers and get suggestions for this study. According to these, I suggest four roles of the actual reader in interpreting novel and researched communication mode in each role, to put it concretely, narrative reader is a role which the actual reader experiences a fictional world based on narration of the narrator on the position of the narratee, authorial reader is a role which the actual reader infers and evaluates ways and values of the implied author on the position of the implied reader, intertextual reader is a role which the actual reader communicates with the career author by extending inference about the implied author based on successive readings, and communal reader is a role which the actual reader communicates deeply with the implied author by the negotiation of meaning in the interpretive community.

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