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 (...

Drawing on Harold Bloom’s concept of factility or the unavoidable influence texts that run through cultural legacy African diaspora, this article examines intertextual relationship between Morrison’s Beloved and Ward’s Salvage Bones Sing, Unburied, Sing. In Bones, Ward engages with to retell myth Medea rethink black motherhood keep interrogating questions self-definition sense community aiming ...

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 aims to show how Dante Alighieri was ‘used’ in Renaissance Polish literature. known by intellectuals first of all as a political theorist. Only the second half 14th century did writers start refer him great poet (Długosz). However, rather than read and topic character demonstrate excellence vernacular poetry. Andrzej Trzecieski Younger, fact, wrote couple epigrams his friend Mikoła...