Intertextual analysis in interpretation of higher education teacher professional vocation

Abstract

This article attempts to present and illustrate the term intertextuality as a concept and as a method that can offer a framework for the analysis and interpretation of short stories or life stories. Intertextuality, as one of the central concepts in the study of culture, is particularly suited to qualitative research, which focuses on the subjectivity of the narrator, the story and the listener/researcher, as well as the relative and indefinite dimension of knowledge. However, the use of intertextuality as an interpretative method in various types of texts requires the knowledge and ability of the researcher in the areas considered in this article. In the light of the methodological task of the article, we have selected narratives that represent different types of intertextual connections at different interpretive levels, at different levels of complexity and at different levels of ideas. The demonstrated intertextual reading reveals the combination of different types of cultural components in the narrative as a way of representing the narrator’s world; it takes into account the possible macro-context in the narrator’s speech, his style and structure, the narrator’s implicit personal interpretation, and the researcher-interpreter’s ability to reread the narrative.