Intertextual references in British, German and Russian political interviews and blogs
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Maria A. Sivenkova
Summary
The purpose of this contribution is to investigate some cross-cultural and genre-related peculiarities of intertextual references derived from British, German and Russian political interviews and politicians’ blogs.
D. Weiss’s (2012) classification of intertextual references is applied in the study, containing the following classes: (1) literary references: literary fiction, political and scientific literature, etc.; (2) political topicality: quotations from various genres of political discourse, references to mass-media texts from traditional or internet-based mass media; (3) historical figures and contemporaries: intertextual references that are not related to hot political issues; (4) folk wisdom: proverbs and sayings, tautologies and truisms, jokes, etc.; (5) music and show business; (6) cinematographic references; (7) advertising.
The cross-cultural and cross-genre analyses attempted in this study allow uncovering some interesting similarities and differences in the use of intertextual references in the six data sets related to the degree of polyphonicity, eclecticism, and the openness of boundaries of political discourse.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- Aufsätze
- Preface
- Linguistic Violence in Contemporary Russian Public Discourses
- Objections Proffering Choices: Negation in the Co-Construction of Political Identity by Rival Partisans in the Russian State Duma
- Posing Questions without Asking
- Patriotyzm genetyczny, półka kulturowa and Palikotyzacja X-a – blends as catchwords in Polish political discourse
- Hashtag Poetics: Political humour on Russian Twitter
- Quotations, intertextual references, models and myths in the presidential debate of the Czech Parliament
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- Intertextual references in British, German and Russian political interviews and blogs
- Types and functions of intertextual references in the Russian State Duma
