Intertextuality in the media: ecolinguistic approach (based on English fiction)

doi:10.26565/2786-5312-2022-96-03

Olena Nefyodova English Philology Department of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7328-8709

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26565/2786-5312-2022-96-03

Keywords: British and American fiction, communication, ecology, quotation, reference phenomena, reference texts, theory of intertextuality

Abstract

The article researches into the effects of references to English fiction in political and pedagogic communication contexts as represented in contemporary feature films. Intertextual references to such fiction texts in the form of quotations are analyzed as an integral component of communication between representatives of the respective linguistic cultures. Such communication often takes the form of a dialogue, in which one communicator quotes a precedent text fragment, important for the respective linguistic culture, and the other completes the quote or identifies it, using the quoted intertext to perform the password function. Such intertextual referencing of core or marginal anthologized texts of a national literature is studied as a way for communicators to construct their shared linguistic-cultural identity, which is seen as an important, though not decisive premise of either communicative concordance or confrontation. The password function performed by the intertext of such fiction texts during a dialogue relies upon cognitively underpinned (un)successful integration of such quotations into the dialogue of the co-locutors sharing the library of culturally-specific reference texts. The chosen perspective, envisaging an analysis of cognitive aspects and communicative effects of quoting fiction texts, expands the explanatory potential of the classic text-centred theory of intertextuality and reveals a new dimension in intertextual referencing.

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