INTERTEXTUALITY AS AN OBJECT OF LINGUOPRAGMATIC RESEARCH
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https://doi.org/10.62536/sjehss.2026.v4.i6.pp92-101Keywords:
Intertextuality, linguopragmatics, allusion, implicature, Speech Act Theory, Relevance Theory, cognitive linguistics, literary discourse.Abstract
This article explores intertextuality as a legitimate and productive object of linguopragmatic research. While intertextuality has traditionally been examined within literary theory and stylistics, its pragmatic dimensions — including communicative intent, reader inference, presupposition activation, and illocutionary force — remain underexplored. Drawing on the theoretical foundations established by Kristeva, Bakhtin, and Barthes, and integrating them with pragmatic frameworks such as Speech Act Theory, Implicature, and Relevance Theory, this article argues that intertextuality functions as a strategic communicative device. The proposed five-step linguopragmatic framework is applied to two illustrative cases — the title of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (English) and O'tkir Hoshimov's Ikki eshik orasi (Uzbek) — demonstrating how intertextual markers activate presupposed knowledge, generate implicature, and shape reader interpretation across different cultural contexts. The article concludes that intertextuality, when examined linguopragmatically, reveals itself not merely as a textual property but as a dynamic cognitive-pragmatic process grounded in shared cultural knowledge and communicative cooperation.
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