Intertextualität in linguistischen Fachaufsätzen des Englischen und Deutschen

The concept of "intertextuality" has its origins in modern literary theory and is closely linked with the concept of "dialogicity" developed as early as the nineteen twenties by Russian literary theorist and philosopher Michail Bachtin. This concept, which also became known under the term "dialogism", is part of an ideology-critical approach, with which the author opposes the "monological", i.e. affirmative and mutually accepted use of language in certain literary genres that prevailed in socialistic realism. By understanding each and every literary text as a dialogue between author and reader, as a symbol relative to other texts and symbols and hence as an open, dynamic system, the Bachtin concept provides the ultimate motivation to liberate the text conceptualised within significantly narrower limits in the conventional, structuralistic literary studies, where the text and/or literary work are regarded as static, encapsulated, organic units. Standing representatively for the post-structural and deconstructive "liberation" of the text is the name of the Bulgarian semiotician Julia Kristeva, who introduced the concept of "intertextuality" into theoretical discussions on text in a direct further development of the Bachtin theories in the mid nineteen sixties, in order to identify the complex relationships that (can) exist between texts. This dissertation deals with the concept of intertextuality from a linguistic perspective and examines the complex meshwork of forms and functions of intertextuality occurring in certain LSP (Language for Specific Purposes) texts and text types. What constitutes intertextuality in LSP texts? What are the different varieties of intertextuality that can be distinguished in LSP texts and through which linguistic, graphic and/or typographic means are they realised? Which communicative-functional objectives can text producers pursue through the deliberate and intended creation of (marked) intertextuality in LSP texts? In order to find answers to these and other questions, Intertextual References are defined, from a pragmalinguistic perspective, as the realisations of certain intertextual speech acts performed by the text producers and appearing on the surface of the text. They are the central unit of analysis of a systematic examination model consisting of various dimensions and options. This model is applied by way of example in a contrastive-interlingual, empirical examination on an extensive corpus consisting of sixty text samples from German and English research articles from the field of modern synchronic linguistics. As well as interlingual and intercultural aspects, the potential influence of certain non-linguistic (social) factors relevant to the text producers represented in the corpus are also considered, which were determined in the run-up to the examination by means of questionnaires (e.g. sex, age, publication experience). The empirical results are presented in tabulated format and the contrasts compared. As well as various interlingual and/or intercultural differences emerging with regard to the individual dimensions and options between the German and English texts, several tendencies concerning the examined non-linguistic characteristics of the text producers are revealed, through which certain hints and assumptions occurring in the linguistic literature and/or the received questionnaires can be partially confirmed and partially refuted. The work is regarded as an applied linguistic contribution to investigating Language for Specific Purposes in general and the specialist language of linguistics in particular, in which, besides text-, pragma-, and sociolinguistic aspects, other aspects derived from the sociology of science are considered as well, e.g. the role of intertextuality as a means of social interaction in academic discourse communities, in the emergence and trading of knowledge and also in the formation and consolidation of discipline-specific discourse styles and cultures.

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Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University

Year dc:date

2005

Author dc:creator

• Griffig, Thomas

Contributors dc:contributor

• Beier, Rudolf

• info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/400
• Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik
• Intertextualität
• Fachsprache
• Textlinguistik
• Fachsprachenforschung
• Fachtextlinguistik
• Wissenschaftlicher Zeitschriftenaufsatz
• Intertextuality
• Text Linguistics
• Research Article
• English for Academic Purposes

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• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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ger

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