A recent theme in the literature on discourse and change is the relationship between
changing discourses in different times and settings, but also between written and
spoken discourse. Thus, intertextual analysis has become an area where researchers
examine how concepts and meanings become developed, transformed, fragmented and
changed across multiple sites and occasions (Anderson, 2005). In this way, the current
text becomes part of future contexts and texts. This has political implications as some
contributions are highlighted and legitimated and others are minimized and
constrained. Dominant meanings become reinforced or modified; contested meanings
may work themselves into the dominant discourse patterns or may struggle to become
widely adopted.