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Narrative, genre, and discourse always carry the traces of other contexts and any text can be read in terms of such traces, which constrains its meaning along with the constraints of the immediate context.
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Narrative, genre, and discourse always carry the traces of other contexts and any text can be read in terms of such traces, which constrains its meaning along with the constraints of the immediate context. Narrative genre and discourse do always carry the traces of other contexts and the text can be read in terms of such traces. Narrative genre and discourse are all frames of intertextuality, which is a form of context. All other forms of context; society, culture, language and ideologies are all forms of intertextuality. We learn about culture and society through reading books, watching television, going to the movies and listening to music. Every text we come across is shaped in someway by other texts we have encountered. Because all texts have traces of other texts does not necessarily constrain their meanings. To understand a text, the text has to be understood in context. One context that affects all...
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