Edgar Allan Poe´s “Silence”: Intertextuality in the Meaning-Making Process within Systemic-Functional approach
This study analyses the semiotic elements that make up Edgar Allan Poe's short story "Silence," so as to stir up a discussion about the place of the reader as the one who will construct meaning by bringing to the text his intertextuality and his reality. The study draws on Hasan's (1989) theory of Verbal Art and Hallid...