For a unification of the fields of research about reading of books

This paper makes out the two main trends of inquiry about reading that have existed in France for the past 20 years. Scarce comprehensive studies, using a rigourous methodology, while obliterating the specificity of the reading object, are to be opposed to a profusion of partial less methodical studies, with occasionally dubious results. Both have equally contributed to the knowledge of the reading practices. The second part of this paper proposed methodological principles, and new research basis which would allow a unification of the fields of research, and a better understanding of the fonctioning of reading
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