INTERTEXTUALITY AND INTERDISCURSIVITY

Question 1

WHAT IS INTERTEXTUALITY?

Answer 1

• integrating a specific text or part of a text into another text
• this includes speech representation

Question 2

FORMS OF LINGUISTIC INTERTEXTUALITY

Answer 2

• quoting
• supporting
• some functions of allusions (create solidarity/flatter the reader)

Question 3

QUOTING

Answer 3

Practices: everyday talk, quotatives; academic discourse; legal discourse, constraining a witness; media and popular culture (interviews, endorsements). Loose or decontextualised quotes can be used strategically.
Ascribed quotes: argumentation and persuasion.

Question 4

REPORTING

Answer 4

Forms: direct speech; indirect speech; free indirect speech; narrator’s representation of speech acts speech’ representation → discourse representation
Functions: intensifying an event; enlisting/speaking for others; offering evidence; distancing; formulating the gist; typifying an encounter; enacting hypothetical speech

Question 5

INTERDISCURSIVITY

Answer 5

• the mix of genres and discourses within a text
• carrying over features from one area of social life to another
• can involve linguistic, visual and other modes

Question 6

REASONS FOR INTERDISCURSIVITY

Answer 6

• Text structure: different parts of texts drawing on different genres, e.g. storytelling and instruction in magazine article (van Leeuwen, 2008)
• Audience design: catering to different readers for maximum persuasive effect
• Social change