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4 - Historicity, Interdiscursivity and Intertextuality in Discourse Studies

from Part I - (Con)Textualizing Discourses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2020

By
Branca Falabella Fabricio  and
Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes
Edited by
Anna De Fina  and
Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Anna De Fina
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Affiliation:
King's College London
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Summary

Linguistics as a modern science has invested its attention in describing structural rules and “trustworthy” parameters, which involve ideologies of objectivity, stability and invariance. These references conceived of language as an autonomous structured entity that created a kind of fixed ontology, relegating historical phenomena to a subaltern position. One can thus say that linguistics and history have been traditionally kept apart in the field of mainstream language studies. Considering the self-enclosure of linguistics, in this chapter, we begin by discussing how historicity and language are associated by different twentieth-century philosophers whose insights into historicity speak well to contemporary views of language as discourse. We then move into exploring how history is brought into textuality in present-day discourse studies by focusing on the macro–micro theoretical constructs of interdiscursivity and intertextuality. We conclude by drawing upon the relevance of such a theoretical apparatus to account for discourse circulation in fluid and superdiverse contexts. A specific question orients our line of reasoning and the pathway we construct: How can we, as discourse analysts, deal with the temporal–spatial horizon of history in view of the accelerated and ephemeral time-space references we experience nowadays? This question reflects our concern with the challenges that contemporary chronotopes pose to discourse analysis.

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Historicityinterdiscursivityintertextualitydiscursive formationentextualizationchronotopesideological interpellationpragmaticsindexicalitysuperdiversity
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The Cambridge Handbook of Discourse Studies , pp. 70 - 90
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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