Interdiscourse
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Interdiscourse is the implicit or explicit relations that a certain discourse has to other discursive entities. A political discourse of a minister of environment may, for instance, not only have relations to other political discourses, but also to scientific discourses concerning effects of polution, and to legal discourses concerning how the legal framework inhibit polution. Fairclough prefers the concept "orders of discourse".
Intertextuality and intertext denote how the meaning and interpretation of a text depend on how it is related to other texts. In Bahktin's dialogism, the utterance is the natural meaningful and finalised unit of speech, which others are supposed to respond to, that is, others interpret the utterance. But, an utterance may be interpreted in various ways, and interdiscourse and interdiscursivity denote how certain such interpretations (and relations to other discourses) are socially more privileged than others. Since interdiscourse privileges certain interpretations, it has a close affinity to the concept of ideology, hegemony and power (sociology). For Bahktine/Voloshinov, signs is a reality that refract another reality, that is, signs are ideological.(Voloshinov 1973: 10) The cogent and restrictive character of the interdiscourse is reflected in the concept of the primacy of interdiscourse (Maingueneau 1991: 20). The interdiscourse is the sayable, the opposite of what cannot be enounced (l'inénoncable). But, the interdiscourse has also primacy in the sense that it defines those relations between discursive entities (or formations) that are constitutive of the discursive entities. What is acceptable discourse, is also an interdiscursive problem, because the interdiscursive relations constitute a worksharing between the discursive entities that frames what is acceptable discourse within each discursive entity.
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Bahktin, M.M. (1986) Speech genres and other late Essays. University of Texas Press.
Bruce, Donald. (1995). De l'intertextuality à l'interdiscursivity. Toronto: Les Editions Paratexte.
Fairclough, Norman. (2003) Analysing Discourse - textual research for social research. New York: Routledge
Maingueneau, Dominique. (1991). L'analyse du discours. Paris: Hachette.
Voloshinov, V.N (1973) Marxism and the Philosophy of language. New York & London: Seminar Press
