39. évfolyam, 1993. 3. szám
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39. évfolyam, 1993. 3. szám |
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Should the reading material let us relax or make us active?
LŐRINCZ Judit
The study describes the expectations from a good novel, as expressed by 50-50 persons each of teachers of the Hungarian language and literature at secondary grammar schools, engineers, ironworkers, librarians and blue-collar workers employed in agriculture. The questionnaire offered 24 responses. They were grouped in three main categories: 1. acquisition of knowledge or intellectual function, 2. gaining experience, 3. emotional effect. Half of the responses were related to informative, intellectual expectations, 41.5% referred to gaining experience, and 8.5% was the ratio of expectation elements signalizing emotional effect. At the end of the 80s the attraction to book and library types is strata-specific. The findings of the research prove that the books chosen for reading satisfy different needs. While blue-collar workers wishing to relax are attracted by the ease of appropriation without resistance, teachers and librarians readily undertake the intellectual work required by the more complex relations of author-narrator-fiction. The group of engineers is divided in this respect. (pp. 425-430)
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