Ebook: Intertextuality and misunderstanding

Language & Communication 30 (2010). — 6 p.This special issue investigates the interplay of intertextuality and misunderstanding in the mediation of social realities.
The notion of intertextuality, that any given text is accorded meaning through its relations to other texts, draws our analytic attention to semiotic configurations (words, reported speech, sayings, stories, television shows, etc.) that extend with some attributed interpretive and formal coherence across successive contexts of use.