THE CATEGORY OF INTERTEXTUALITY IN PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH DIGITAL NEWS MEDIA: TYPOLOGY ISSUES

Abstract

The article considers intertextuality as a textual category embodying the correlation of several texts in one in the process of their functioning and as a process of interactivity of one’s (the author’s) and someone else’s speech (quotes, allusions, reminiscences, etc.). The paper outlines the context of the study and its underlying concepts and methodological considerations, mentions the contribution this study makes to the body of knowledge on media linguistic. Special attention is paid to the consideration of current typologies of intertextuality in the context of the Internet news discourse of Portuguese and Spanish media in order to identify their features and main figures of the intertext. The authors make a conclusion that definitions of intertextuality are polyphonic. There is a variety of published approaches to the intertextuality’s taxonomy, which classify it in different ways. The prevalent intertext figures in the Internet Portuguese and Spanish media news discourse are quotes, allusions and references. The quotes are classified according to their explicit level, attribution and purposes.