Intertextual Pragma- Stylistic Study in Selected Novels

Intertextuality has gotten attention in literature as an intertextual tactic and from a pragma-stylistic stance; incense dramatic texts are so close to reality. The pragma-stylistic components of intertextuality in American drama are examined in this study. The main goal of this study is to investigate the intertextuality effect on literary communication by examining the elements that aid in the new author's ability to maintain the previous written image, as well as the parameters that measure his success in presenting his persona through his writing.

To commence the aims of the current study and test its hypotheses, the following procedures are supposed: 1.Revising the literature about intertextuality in general and its pragma-stylistic nature in specific. 2.Plotting relevant pragma-stylistic theories in relation to the nature of the three selected dramatic texts to establish a model that can be utilized in investigating the data under inspection. 3.Analyzing the data under inquiry by means of the eclectic model made for this purpose. A number of Findings have been reached at: Intertextuality in Dramatic texts is pragma-stylistically process achieved by means of intertextual speech acts, conversational maxims breaching, and stylistic strategies, which can be traced in four dialogue extracts in each of these dramatic texts "Mourning Becomes Electra", "An Enemy of the People", and "The Ballad of the Sad Café". It adopts various kinds of intertextuality. The study ends up by summing up the conclusions and presenting certain recommendations as well as suggestions for further studies