In the last years, Serbia has witnessed coming into being of various media forms that all provide social, political and cultural criticism through acrid comedy, parody and satire. The paper centers on sarcasm as one of the key aggressive rhetorical devices used in the language of popular satirical portal Njuz.net, with an overview of the structural and functional characteristics of sarcasm in c...

It is posited that boundary objects, as inscribed artefacts, can be thought of as forms of text. In this paper a discourse-analytic framework is employed to explore the processes of sharing knowledge across boundaries. Three discursive approaches are used to re-analyze existing contributions to the boundary objects literature. First, ‘intertextual analysis’ (Allen, 2000) is applied to Brown’s (...

Intertextual understanding is a complex cognitive process that involves linguistic and skills together with the application of appropriate learning strategies, in order to understand implicit meaning text. To foster intertextual among learner as habit thinking, present study made use meta-cognitive due their pedagogical benefits demonstrated previous studies. Based on experimental research, aim...

• Lexical cohesion on YouTube is multimodal, cross-modal and intertextual. Cohesive ties exist between the video comments as well comments. A discussion may appear fragmented but still show dense cohesion. Qualitative corpus methods reveal how fragmentation a feature surface only. This paper investigates use functions of lexical within across modes levels interaction channel, arguing that contr...

This article explores the labeling of the iPhone as the ‘Jesus phone’ in order to demonstrate how religious metaphors and myth can be appropriated into popular discourse and shape the reception of a technology. We consider the intertextual nature of the relationship between religious language, imagery and technology and demonstrate how this creates a unique interaction between technology fans a...