Abstract :
They study attempts to investigate a monologue produced by Nick Vujicic in his testimony in
terms of intertextuality with three research question, i.e. (1) what modes of intertextuality does Nick
Vujicic adopt to assemble the biblical information into his testimony? (2) what strategies of
intertextuality does Nick Vujicic adopt to assemble the biblical information into his testimony? (3)
what possible reister does Nick Vujicic adopt in his testimony in terms of linguistic and pedagogical
perspective?
A testimonial text produce by Nick Vujicic was downloaded from www.lifewithoutlimbs,org.
the text was then retyped in Microsoft Office word 2003for ease of text fragmenting during the
process of analysis.
The corpus data was analyzed on the basis of Fairclough (1992)?s Discour and social change on
intertextuality to find out the modes and strategies of intertextuality adopted by Nick Vujicic in his
testimonial taxt. Despite the study being in qualitative in nature, quantification in percentage of
distribution of modes and strategies of intertextuality and biblical allusion was made to facilitate the
process of qualitative analysis.
The study reveals that three modes of intertextuality are employed, namely sequential
intertextuality (41.12%), embedded intertextuality (5.18%), and mixed intertextuality (53.44%),
impliying that the text was a self-reflection. Namely discourse representation (43.12%),
presupposition(27.58%), negation (12.06%), metadiscours (6.89%) and irony (10.35%), implying that
Vujicic wanted form yo own discourse. Finally two types of biblical allusion are adopted, namely
direct allusion (5.17%), indirect allusion (48.27%); the rest (46.56%) is self-reflection, implying that
vujicic?s text was proselytizying in nature.
The pedagogical implication that can be drawn is that text production cannot be separated from
intertextuality; and the study recommends SFL student to read a lot of resource books of interest to
supply themselves with materials for possible future intertextuality in writing or public speaking on
condition that plagiarism is avoided.