Reader

A Reader is a Linguistic Agent with a Reading Ability.

• Context:
  • They have a Personal Vocabulary.
  • They can solve a Reading Task.
  • They can make use of the Background Knowledge to construct Meaning.
  • They can range from being a Passive Reader to a Strategic Reader.
  • They can range from being a Poor Reader to being a Good Reader.
• Example(s):
  • any person that can read this sentence is a reader.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • It may be that Socrates could not read.
• See: Writer, Listener.

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References

2009

• (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=reader
  • S: (n) reader (a person who enjoys reading)
  • S: (n) subscriber, reader (someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication)
  • S: (n) reader (a person who can read; a literate person)
  • S: (n) reviewer, referee, reader (someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication)
  • S: (n) proofreader, reader (someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections)
  • S: (n) lector, reader (someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church)
  • S: (n) lector, lecturer, reader (a public lecturer at certain universities)
  • S: (n) reader (one of a series of texts for students learning to read)

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