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dialogue that was carried out with them about meaning and significance in their
reading-with-the-ear of fiction.
A phenomenological researcher tries to be as close to his or her empiricism as
possible, which also was the case in this research. The inspiration from
phenomenology could be described as a form of hermeneutical phenomenology,
where the researcher values the interpretative spiralling movement between the
whole and the parts characterized by the existential hermeneutics that Hans
Georg Gadamer (1989) has described.
The analysis of the informant’s statements was carried out using method
triangulation, mainly phenomenological meaning concentration inspired by
Amedeo Giorgi (1985, 8–21; 2009, 128–129). The concentrated meaning
constructions were expressed in eight different metanarratives about
interpretation (the aesthetic perspective) and eight different metanarratives about
form (the metaperspective) for each of the three fictive stories. The efferent
perspective was analysed using a model for analysing stories and life narratives
formed by William Labov and Joshua Waletsky (Labov 1972; Labov &
Waletsky 1967)
Results
Chapter 5 reports the efferent perspective that was described with the help of
analysis of stories and some quantitative graphs. The analysis showed that the
profiles of the answers in the two investigation groups differed. The efferent
perspective made the cognitive handicap that has an impact on short time
memory and attention ability visible in the special group. Concerning the
question about form, the informants in the reference group benefitted more in
terms of remembering details and retelling the stories from the recording with
one voice, and sound effects also helped them remember and made the retelling
richer. The informants in the special group, on the other hand, benefitted from a
recording with two voices. The ability to concentrate and remember was
disturbed by the sound effects in the special group.
The aesthetic perspective is reported in Chapter 6 and is described with the help
of interpretative analysis of the answers to questions that demanded that the
informants process the text. The informants had to fill in empty spaces (Iser) and
move from stance to stance according to the theory of envisionment building
developed by Langer. The informants got affordances to give active aesthetic
responses in accordance to theories developed by Østern, Steffensen and
Sørensen.
The double hermeneutics in use when interpreting the interpretations of the
participants revealed a capacity for aesthetic reading of fiction in both the
special group and the reference group. The aesthetic qualities were found
sufficient in all variations of reading of the professional readers of the audio
book the informant groups listened to. The analysis showed, however, that the