Category: Intertextuality

  • Queering the military: Thank you for your service (abstract)

    I’m excited to present my research again at the Linguistics Society of America’s 94th Annual Meeting. The title of my paper is “Queering the military: Thank you for your service.” The extended abstract is below. Abstract: In the United States, national identity and military identity are inextricably linked. And, the U.S. military is arguably an…

  • De/re-contextualization on twitter – spreading mis/disinformation

    Earlier this semester, I wrote this brief analysis about Senator Blumenthal trending on Twitter. In the analysis, I draw on intertextuality (Kristeva, 1986) and Bauman’s (2004) notion of entextualization which captures intertextuality as a dynamic process. Through these frameworks, I was demonstrating to the class how misinformation (and disinformation – i.e. the intentional spread of…