Connecticon of the text/corpora: definition of the concept and method of description

Abstract

The article substantiates the need to move from the description of individual intertextual links and corpora of only “incoming” or only “outgoing” intertextual borrowings to the description of the entire complex of intertextual links of a single text or a certain set of texts (corpora). By the complex of intertextual relations of a single text X, the author understands the totality of its relations 1) with the set of texts Y, from which the given text borrowed any elements (“incoming”), and 2) with the set of texts Z, which borrowed any elements (“outgoing”) from this text. The complex intertextual relations to a variety of texts X is a set 1) the set of texts, of which texts are given many borrowed any elements, 2) the Z set of texts, which borrowed some elements from the texts of the given set, and 3) intertextual relations between the texts of the given set. Such a complex is proposed to be called the term connecticon, formed by analogy with the terms lexicon, onomasticon, etc. The author’s version of the method of describing the connecticon of a corpora includes the following six stages of work: 1) preliminary stage; 2) data collection; 3) description of a set of internal intertext connections (endoconnectemes); 4) description of a set of intertext borrowings (“incoming” exoconnectemes); 5) description of a set of intertext borrowings from the described corpora (“outgoing” exoconnectemes);6) general characteristics of connecticon of corpora.