Cothematic Intertextuality in a Sociocognitive Discourse-Analytical Perspective

The present study seeks to revisit the concept of intertextuality as integrated into a sociocognitive discourse-analytical perspective, whereby intertextual meanings can be explicated via semantic macropropositions, mental representations, event models, and pragmatic context models. study’s significance derives from its scholarly endeavour demonstrate how rhetorical are cognitively explicable in relation their relevant macro social/societal structures McGrath McGrath’s (2007) Dawkins Delusion? polemical response Richard Dawkins’ (2006) God Delusion. Three research questions have been posed: (1) What cothematic links that globally constitute discourse(s) drawn upon Delusion?? (2) How explain local constructed generated by models same book? (3) model’s constraints control production reception relate them structures? Methodologically, subjects Thibault’s (1991) notion “cothematic intertextuality” approach presented critical discourse studies. data analysis has demonstrated global holding between two sets textbook mediated related significant macrostructures.