Types Of Intertextuality

Intertextuality

The language is one of the most effective means of communication between human being, and what is unique about it, is how people utilize words, phrases and expressions to refer to a specific need, purposes or situation. When the writers synthesize texts or a speakers engage in conversation both tend to use structures and phrases from the never-ending source in their brains, in some cases, the reader or the listener can recognise the origin of that phrase or structure while on other cases, the origin cannot be traced and property over that phrase or structure will be lost. In literary studies during the postmodernism era Julia kristeva (1980) coined the new concept of Intertextuality which refer to the idea that every text has

Quotation, Content and genre are the main types of Intertextuality that are heavily used by writers and speakers, according to Boolr and Bloor (2007) “ Intertextuality involves both the intrusion ( or adoption by the speaker/author) of aspects of previous texts into a new text either through citation, attribution or references, and also by the hybridization one genre or text type with another”(pp 51-52).

1. The first type of Intertextuality is quotation, writers or speakers infuse their work with quotation either directly, where the citation marks are the evidence of it or indirectly where the source is mentioned first then a paraphrasing for the original introduced into the text or speech. The main reason for using quotation is to support and defend what is implied in the text or speech and to inform the receiver implicitly that the producer is sophisticated enough to utilize and manipulate other voices to support his work (Orr,

Genre is the third type of Intertextuality, normally readers before reading any text they try to identify the genre of a text by using the previous knowledge they have to establish the connection of the text in hand to other genres or text types. For example newspaper, people are familiar with the organization and the style of such genre, therefore they know how to skim headlines and if they looking for a summary of the story, the reader goes directly to the opening paragraph. Therefore the Intertextuality connection established by the reader, assists in the process of comprehension and facilitate the reception of new information(Ballard, 2005).

Bibliography

Architecture in Islamic Civilization this article by Dr. Ragheb Elsergany published originally in Arabic on the 17th of may 2010 and later, Dr. Ragheb Elsergany translated the text into English on 17/06/2010. The article explains types of Islamic architecture during the golden era of Islamic civilisation.

Intertextuality Analysis

The application of Intertextuality analysis has two functions: the first one is to discover what the ideology of the writer or the speaker, and the second function is to understand the writer’s or speaker’s logic or intention for highlighting such ideas (Bloor & Bloor, 2007) p 54 therefore this section conducts Intertextuality analysis and examines types of Intertextuality encountered in Dr. Elsergany’s