An extensive body of scholarship has documented the way disciplinary texts and activities are produced and mediated through their relationship to a wide array of extradisciplinary discourses. This article seeks to complement and extend that line of work by drawing upon Witte’s (1992) notion of intertext to address the way disciplinary activities repurpose, or reuse and transform, extradisciplinary practices. Based on text collection and practice-oriented retrospective accounts of one writer’s processes for a number of textual activities, the article argues that the writer’s developing disciplinary writing process as a graduate student in English literature is mediated by practices she repurposed from previous engagements with keeping a prayer journal as a member of a church youth group and generating visual designs for an undergraduate graphic arts class. Ultimately, the article argues for increased theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical attention to the discursive practices persons recruit and reinvigorate across multiple engagements with reading, writing, making, and doing.
Discussions of reported speech have increasingly attended to mode, both the mode of the utterance represented and the mode of delivery. In this article, we argue for a more expansive engagement with multimodality, a view already signaled in the theories of Go¤man, Clark, Hanks, and Irvine. We first propose shifting the unit of analysis from linguistic or discourse representation to semiotic remediation practices, a notion that attends to the diverse ways that humans' and nonhumans' semiotic performances (historical and imagined) are re-represented and reused across modes, media, and chains of activity. We then turn to three examples-a family pretend game, a college composition course task, and a comedy skit-that illustrate how semiotic remediation operates in concretely situated and culturally mediated practices. We conclude by suggesting that this notion of semiotic remediation will assist a fuller understanding of reported speech as discourse practice, that dialogic views of reported speech may in turn contribute to explorations of multimodality, and that attention to semiotic remediation is central to understanding the work of communication and culture. Brought to you by | University of Birmingham Authenticated Download Date | 5/30/15 7:23 PM Semiotic remediation practices 735 Brought to you by | University of Birmingham Authenticated Download Date | 5/30/15 7:23 PM Brought to you by | University of Birmingham Authenticated Download Date | 5/30/15 7:23 PM Semiotic remediation practices 737 Brought to you by | University of Birmingham Authenticated Download Date | 5/30/15 7:23 PM Brought to you by | University of Birmingham Authenticated Download Date | 5/30/15 7:23 PM Brought to you by | University of Birmingham Authenticated Download Date | 5/30/15 7:23 PM
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