Intertextuality

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Intertextuality
There are no strict conclusions in this composite
text which I regard as always already entangling
with a vast world (while it is being read) that
of the multi-faceted virtual realities of its
reader(s). - Diane Caney

• Chapter 4
• Norman Fairclough
• Discourse and Social Change

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Origins and Development

• Term coined by Kristeva in reference to
  Bakhtins translinguistic approach to text
  analysis as specifically linked to his theory
  of genre
• Kristeva notes that intertexuality implies the
  insertion of history (society) into a text and of
  this text into history . Bakhtin points to how
  text responds to other text and shapes or
  anticipates new texts - this concept is
  neglected in mainstream linguistics
• HISTORY/SOCIETY
• TEXT TEXT
• HISTORY/SOCIETY

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Ocular Echoism

• the art of ellis g
• http//www.current.tv/watch/2850289

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Vertical and Horizontal

• Horizontal and vertical dimensions/axes of
  intertextuality
• Horizontal is what text come before and what
  texts follow - connected dialogically between
  author, reader, writer, speaker, listener
• Vertical references the text historically or
  socially to other texts
• EX A poem I wrote about Iraq may have the
  following intertextual spheres

NYT Iraq headline Play I saw about Vietnam Other
war poems
Conversations Co created knowledge A song I heard
that day My friends reaction to the poem
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Our-own-ness

• Our speech is filled with others words
• All constituted by elements of other texts
• Think about phrases/words/ideas you use as your
  own. Where do they come from? How did they come
  to you? How have you transformed them?

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Relationship between intertextuality and
hegemony or power(helps explain
interdiscursivity)

• Intertexuality points to how texts are produced
  and can transform prior understandings,
  restructure existing ideas and generate new ones.
  
• Ability to do this requires access that access
  is socially constrained
• Who has access?
• What texts/voices/stories/discourses are
  privileged?
• Example axis of evil

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Critical Dimensions in Discourse Analysis

• Manifest intertextuality - Present in text,
  marked or cued, or present through reference or
  response to previous text.
• Interdiscursivity (constitutive intertextuality)
  - orders of discourse weigh over types of
  discourse. Content over carriage. Applied to
  societal order, institutional order, type of
  discourse, elements of discourse, styles of
  discourse. Can determine hierarchy of worth as
  connected to hegemonic power.
• Textual transformations - distributional
  networks and intertextual chains - how text is
  produced, consumed, transformed. See axis of
  evil .
• Role of text in forming social identities. Text
  as social identity marker. Linked to idea of
  cultural capital.