INTERTEXTUALITY, CONVERSATIONS.pptx in English Discourse

INTERTEXTUALITY, CONVERSATIONS.pptx in English Discourse

1. INTERTEXTUALITY

2. Intertextuality Switching by incorporating (borrowing) words from another text spoken or written in the same or a different variety of language. Direct quotation: “It’s funny that Bob said ‘I’ll never give up’.” Indirect quotation: “It’s funny that Bob said he would never give up.”

3. Intertextuality Fairclough (1992) stated that “intertextuality is basically the property texts have of being full of snatches of other texts, which may be explicitly demarcated in, and which the text may assimilate, contradict, ironically echo and so forth”

4. Whereas, numerous validated scholarly studies demonstrate that African American students as part of their culture and history as African people possess and utilize a language described in various scholarly approaches as "Ebonics" (literally Black sounds) or pan African Communication behaviors or African Systems; and ... Whereas, the Federal Bilingual Education Act (20 USC 1402 et seq.) mandates that local educational agencies "build their capacities to es- tablish , implement and sustain programs of instruction for children and youth of limited English proficiency,"

5. Thus, the Oakland text directly quotes a piece of federal legislation to set it off between quotes and allow the surrounding text, part of which is taken from a certain type of linguistics research which is given authority by being incorporated into the text more directly without direct quotation, to interpret it.

6. CONVERSATIONS

7. Conversations “The utterances of theses social languages have meaning—or at least, the meanings they are, in fact, taken to have—thanks to being embedded in specific social discussions” e.g. public debates, arguments certain issues, motifs, themes (abortion, smoking, gambling, feminism etc.) --some people take ‘sides’

8. Conversations Values, beliefs and objects play a role in conversations These themes and values circulate in texts and in media

9. Tools of Inquiry (Exist in the mind and in the world) Discourses Social Languages Conversations Intertextuality