Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

intertextuality

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English

Syllables: in-ter-tex-tu-al-i-ty
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

7

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written, be it explicit or implicit.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The reference to another separate and distinct text within a text.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"When one studies the intertextuality of "Hamlet", one realises that William Shakespeare must have read thousands of books."
"All of these issues—subjectivity, intertextuality, reference, ideology—underlie the problematized relations between history and fiction in postmodernism."
"From the translator's point of view, therefore, both types of intertextuality—or simply all kinds of intertextuality—are important, since the translator, ideally, ought not to deprive the reader of even a smallest chunk of the intertextual load of the original."

Etymology

Borrowed from French intertextualité.

Usage

Inflected Forms

intertextualities (plural)

Derived Forms

digitextuality

Questions

What does intertextuality mean?: The idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written, be it explicit or implicit.
Where does intertextuality come from?: Borrowed from French intertextualité.

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