Sustainable and Unsustainable Reading Styles: Typology Attempt

Abstract

By using the tools of in-depth anthropological research, this work explores the so-called reading styles, i.e. complex and connected reading practices which have a “common denominator” and result from the socially and biographically determined attitude of the individual towards reading and text. Four reading styles are distin-guished and analyzed, and the main distinguishing mark between them runs along the “persistency–non-persistency” axis.