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Applied English Language Studies 244
Intertextuality Exam
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1. Intertextuality
Shuart-Faris & Bloome (2004: ix) state that: “
intertextuality in its simplest definition is based on the common sensical notion that texts
are influenced by other texts. That is texts have long histories replete with conventions,
functions, particular ways of making meaning and other ways of interacting with other texts.
More specifically it is the idea that texts, in the narrowest sense, as written objects, are
linked to other texts through the ways that they are constructed, read or experienced, and
used. “
Origins of theoretical study of intertextuality
Mikhail Bakhtin (1981) Dialogic qualities of texts: The way in which multiple voices (multiple
ways of talking, multiple points of view, multiple things to say) are transformed and reused
each time something new is written.
Julia Kristeva (1986,37) Intertextuality: “any text is constructed as a mosaic of quotations;
any text is the absorption and transformation of another.”
Kristeva coined the term intertextuality for the ways in which texts and the ways of talking
refer to and build on other texts and discourses. For Kristeva, horizontal intertextuality has
to do with the how texts build on texts with which they are related sequentially, in other
words, the texts which they follow and precede. Vertical intertextuality refers to how texts
build on texts that are paradigmatically related to them in various ways, members of the
same or similar category.
Texts can bear intertextual traces of other texts in many ways, ranging from the most direct
repetition to the most indirect allusion (Johnston, 2008:164).
Fairdough (1992) describes some of the possibilities:
Direct/Explicit Intertextuality
A text can quote another text or represent it through paraphrase e.g. academic writing,
quotations in newspaper articles, etc
Presupposition
A text can be worded in such a way as to presuppose a prior text. For example:
- The newest shot was fired in the evolution debate.
- Activists cite dreadlock cases at the latest example of governments lack of clear
direction to schools.
The way I define intertextuality is different from previous definitions.
Forms/Types of Intertextuality
- Explicit = Direct repetition or paraphrasing
- Implicit = indirect allusion, assumption
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Applied English Language Studies 244 Test
Applied English Language Studies (Universiteit Stellenbosch)
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Applied English Language Studies 244
Intertextuality Exam
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1. Intertextuality
Shuart-Faris & Bloome (2004: ix) state that: “
intertextuality in its simplest definition is based on the common sensical notion that texts
are influenced by other texts. That is texts have long histories replete with conventions,
functions, particular ways of making meaning and other ways of interacting with other texts.
More specifically it is the idea that texts, in the narrowest sense, as written objects, are
linked to other texts through the ways that they are constructed, read or experienced, and
used. “
Origins of theoretical study of intertextuality
Mikhail Bakhtin (1981) Dialogic qualities of texts: The way in which multiple voices (multiple
ways of talking, multiple points of view, multiple things to say) are transformed and reused
each time something new is written.
Julia Kristeva (1986,37) Intertextuality: “any text is constructed as a mosaic of quotations;
any text is the absorption and transformation of another.”
Kristeva coined the term intertextuality for the ways in which texts and the ways of talking
refer to and build on other texts and discourses. For Kristeva, horizontal intertextuality has
to do with the how texts build on texts with which they are related sequentially, in other
words, the texts which they follow and precede. Vertical intertextuality refers to how texts
build on texts that are paradigmatically related to them in various ways, members of the
same or similar category.
Texts can bear intertextual traces of other texts in many ways, ranging from the most direct
repetition to the most indirect allusion (Johnston, 2008:164).
Fairdough (1992) describes some of the possibilities:
Direct/Explicit Intertextuality
A text can quote another text or represent it through paraphrase e.g. academic writing,
quotations in newspaper articles, etc
Presupposition
A text can be worded in such a way as to presuppose a prior text. For example:
- The newest shot was fired in the evolution debate.
- Activists cite dreadlock cases at the latest example of governments lack of clear
direction to schools.
The way I define intertextuality is different from previous definitions.
Forms/Types of Intertextuality
- Explicit = Direct repetition or paraphrasing
- Implicit = indirect allusion, assumption
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