Two forms of intertextuality in Newsweek letters to the editor
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.2007v10n2p223Keywords:
Discourse, Letters to the editor, Intertextuality, Presupposition, Irony.Abstract
This article is an analysis of two forms of intertextuality, presupposition and irony, in the corpus of 122 letters to the editor taken from the Newsweek magazine. In order to accomplish the analysis, the theories that supported this work were Bakthin (1986, 2000), Orlandi (2001), Bronckart (2003) and Maingueneau (1997, 2001). The corpus consisted of 122 letters sent to the magazine that were analized quantitatively and qualitatively from July to December 2002. It was observed that the forms of intertextuality referring to the article or report have a direct connection with the development of the argumentation. The forms of intertextuality are connected to the argumentative line of the text, although sometimes they are not clearly presented in the body of the letter.
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