The intertextuality of argumentation:a semiotic approach to academic writing in higher education

作     者：James ma 

作者机构：Independent ScholarBathUK 

出 版 物：《Language and Semiotic Studies》 (语言与符号学研究（英文）)

年 卷 期：2023年第9卷第1期

页      面：14-32页

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：academic writing argumentation instances of signification intertextuality sign action textual relations and functions 

摘      要：The importance of argumentation in academic writing,while historically recognised,has arguably lost prominence alongside the rapid expansion of higher education since the early 1990s in the *** has been exacerbated by an increasingly prevalent technological intervention in teaching and learning *** this as a background,this article presents a semiotic analysis of student dissertation extracts to illustrate the role of intertextuality in governing interpretative,evaluative,and concluding propositions in *** proposition is perceived as indexed to syntactical compositionality by which a previous proposition elicits a present one that awaits a future one,thus forming a line of *** analysis teases out what is at stake concerning the interdependence of signifying codes in textual relations and *** brings into view a network of sign actions that lends itself to instances of signification in mediating and coordinating propositions in *** article concludes with reflection on the medium of English as a lingua franca for studies in higher education,highlighting a semiotic understanding of the intertextuality of argumentation in academic writing.