Интертекстуальность как категория текста в эссе А.Г. Битова Русский устный и русский письменный

The give article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of intertexual relations and the specificity of their functioning in the publicistic text by Andrey Bitov. Intertextuality is a basic category of text in postmodernism where the ways of including fragments from other texts, culture realia, historical event are determined by author’s strategy. Any text often appears as a response to already existing works, as a feedback to it in the dialogue between the texts, includes and transforms a ”new word” acquiring at that semantic multiplicity. Intertextual elements allow not only to identify the author’s idiostyle, but also to study the processes of cross-level relations themselves, to reveal mental units and precedent texts existing in linguistic cognition and objectivized in the language.