Daniel Allington
Research interests
Over the last few years, I have moved from pure reception study to a more eclectic research practice working between cultural sociology, media studies, and book history in the attempt to understand complex issues such as the maintenance of ‘distinction’ among cultural producers and consumers. In terms of methodology, my background is in qualitative analysis, although I am increasingly interested in quantitative analysis and in the problems these competing research traditions raise for one another.
Research projects on which I have worked include The Discourse of Reading Groups [http://www.open.ac.uk/dorg/index.shtml] and Devolving Diasporas [http://www.devolvingdiasporas.com/].
Recent publications
- Allington, D. and Swann, J. (2009) Literary reading as social practice. Special issue of Language and Literature 18 3
- Allington, D. and Swann, J. (2009) Researching literary reading as social practice. Language and Literature 18 3 219-230
- Swann, J. and Allington, D. (2009) Reading groups and the language of literary texts: a case study in social reading. Language and Literature 247-264
- Allington, D. (2008) How to do things with literature: blasphemous speech acts, satanic intentions, and the uncommunicativeness of verses. Poetics Today 29 3 473-523
- Allington, D. (2007) ‘How come most people don’t see it?’: slashing The Lord of the Rings. Social Semiotics 17 1 43-62
- Allington, D. (2006) First steps towards a rhetorical psychology of literary interpretation. Journal of Literary Semantics 35 2 123-144.
- Allington, D. (2005) Re-reading the script: a discursive appraisal of the use of the ‘schema’ in cognitive poetics. Working with English 2 1-9
Contact Details
Centre for Language and Communication
Stuart Hall Building
The Open University
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
email: d.allington@open.ac.uk
See my faculty web page [http://www.open.ac.uk/education-and-languages/people/people-profile.php?staff_id=2193660&show=profile] for more details.