Interactions between ideology, dialogic space construction, and the text-organizing function

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This study has demonstrated that ideological differences manifest themselves in the text. It has shown that the traditional corpus and the postmodern one differ in their ways to “contract” and “expand” the dialogic space. The discourse in the traditional corpus is characterized by the author “endorsing” and “acknowledging” the previous studies whose tradition the author is continuing, whereas the discourse in the postmodern corpus is characterized by the author making arguments “entertained”, expanding the dialogic space for alternative viewpoints. The process of deconstructing and reconstructing history with “deny” resources shown in this paper has clearly demonstrated, at least in part, an example of the dynamic interaction of resources both internal and external to the text. That is, a particular ideology in writing history—external to the text—has impacted the internal text, both in its structure and engagement resources.

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