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© 2021 V&R unipress, Brill Deutschland GmbH ISBN Print: 9783847113232 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737013239 (2) To discover the opinion of key informants in book clubs and dialogical literary gatherings and so investigate further their similarities and differ- ences. (3) Todevelopasystemtocategorise thesimilaritiesanddiscrepanciesbetween bookclubsanddialogical literarygatherings. 2.2 Methodandmodel The researchmethod employedwas the case study8, with the use of an ethno- graphicmodel9.Theultimateobjectiveof thecasestudieswastodiscoverrelevant units of analysis in order to investigate in depth at the ‘micro’ level and thus provide ideas to help to understand and enhance specific realities. In Ethnog- raphy, it isconsideredthatinordertohaveagoodknowledgeofagivenreality, it isnecessarytoexperienceitasanactualmemberof thecommunity.Tothisend,I participated indifferent dialogic literary gatherings andbook clubmeetings in different settings as a participant, with a view to becoming closer to the coor- dinators andparticipants and investigating these readingpractices further. 2.3 Procedureandparticipants Themethodology includedparticipantobservationof variousmeetingsofbook clubs anddialogic literary gatherings in Spain andBrazil, both in schools and other social organisations, as well as interviews with key informants (coor- dinators and participants), and the circumstances described below were ob- served. A total of eighty-twomeetingswere attended (forty-eight in book clubs and thirty-fourindialogic literarygatherings).Whereverpossible, theinteractionsof the members were audio-recorded and later transcribed.Where this was not possible, fieldnoteswere takenon thediscussions. In addition, a total of thirty interviews were conducted (with seven coor- dinators of book clubs and twelve participants in book clubs, and four coor- dinatorsof,andsevenparticipants in,dialogical literarygatherings).Thestyleof the interviews varied; someweremore in depth, to achieve triangulation and saturation of data that hadbeen recorded and/or transcribed, andotherswere more informal, dependingon the situation. 8 Stake2005. 9 Hammersley/Atkinson2007. CarmenÁlvarez-Álvarez246 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY 4.0