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MERICAN Journal of Public Diplomacy and International Studies
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AMERICAN Journal of Public Diplomacy and
International Studies 
Volume 01, Issue 06, 2023 ISSN (E): 2993-2157 
 
 
 
Differences between Allusive References and Precedent 
Texts
 
Achilova Risolat Azamovna, Ph.D
 
Associated Professor of the Bukhara State University,
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Annatation: 
The article is about the differences of allusive references and the precedent texts. 
The issues investigated are the notion of the pre-text, its types and the criteria of the pre-texts. 
Different types of references to the pre-texts are being analyzed. The conclusion is that in 
contemporary science the borders between different types of allusive references and precedent 
texts.
Keywords: 
Allusion, precedent texts, linguistic personality, reminiscence, reminiscence, 
denotative, connotative.
 
Allusion is a striking stylistic device that increases the imagery of the text and its saturation with 
subject-logical information. However, the concept of allusion today does not have clearly 
defined boundaries, as it is adjacent to other ways of referring to precedent texts - such as 
quotation, reminiscence, etc. 
Allusion is “the presence in the text of elements whose function is to indicate the connection of 
this text with other texts or to refer to certain historical, cultural and biographical facts.” 
Elements that indicate the connection between texts are called markers, or allusion 
representatives, and the texts and facts of reality to which the reference is made are called 
allusion denotations. Precedent texts (or pretexts) must be referred to the denotations of allusion. 
The outstanding Soviet scientist Yu.N. Karaulov was the first to introduce the concept of a 
precedent text into scientific circulation, considering it in relation to the consciousness of a 
linguistic personality and defining it as follows: “Let's call precedent texts, (1) significant for a 
particular personality in cognitive or emotional terms, (2) having a super personal character, i.e., 
well-known to a wide circle of a given personality, including his predecessors and 
contemporaries, and, finally, such (3) appeal to which is renewed repeatedly in the discourse of a 
given linguistic personality”
Precedent texts can also be non-verbal (works of painting, sculpture, music, architecture), since 
any work of art is a text, because “in semiotics, any ordered system that serves as a means of 
communication and uses signs can be called a language, and, therefore, art is language organized 
in a special way, and works of art are messages made in this language and, therefore, are texts” . 
Text images created by references to non-verbal pretexts associated with painting can be 
considered as secondary signs that have the properties of “iconic signs: sensual reality, 
concreteness, visualization”. According to the structuralist A. Martinet, in contrast to verbal 
messages, which are linear in nature, the system of visual communication is not linear, but two-

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