Conceptualizing Intertextuality: Foundations and Key Perspectives
Definition :
Although we usually think of text as an object one reads-a textbook, a section of a passage, or a passage printed on a page, it need not be confined to boundaries of printed language. Scholars like Siegel (1984), Rowe (1987), and Short (1986) argue that in a modern classroom, a text is any meaningful configuration of signs intended to communicate i.e. anything that says something or communicates an idea.
Example :
Linguistic signs such as a song, a poem, a novel, etc.
Non-linguistic signs such as a mathematical equation, a scientific diagram, etc.
Experiential signs such as a thought or a memory from which learners can draw connections as they construct their understandings about a current text.
Extra :
Intertextuality as a learning process refers to how texts are understood in relation to other texts. This view focuses on the “ways in which the production and reception of a given text depend upon the participants' knowledge of other texts” (Beaugrande and Dressler, 1981, p. 182).
