INTERTEXTUALITY IN ENGLISH LYRICS OF THE XX-XXI CENTURIES

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the category of intertextuality on the material of the English song of the XX-XXI centuries. The work examines various approaches to the interpretation of the concept of intertextuality in the works of domestic and foreign linguists, distinguishes two models of intertextuality – wide and narrow, as a result of which intertextuality is defined, on the one hand, as a universal property of the text in general, when any text is read as intertext, and, on the other hand, as a specific quality of certain texts. The article studies types of intertextual relations, gives the definition of the pretext. The authors focus on intertextual inclusions, the sources of which are religious pretexts. The texts of English songs are examined as receiving texts, and the texts of religious content are considered from the perspective of precedence. In the work, the problem of interpretation of intertextual inclusions is associated with the problem of reader’s perception.

Keywords

• текст
• категория текста
• интертекстуальность
• интертекстуальные отношения
• прецедентный текст
• text
• textual category
• intertextuality
• intertextual relations
• pretext