Citationality, in literary criticism, is an author's citation (quoting) of other author's works. Some works are highly citational (making frequent use of numerous allusion to and quotations from other works), while others seem to exist in a vacuum, without explicit references to other authors or texts. Some writers, such as the Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, are highly citational (Borges frequently included citations and footnotes in his stories, many of which were entirely made up). Citationality is often seen as a typical feature of postmodernism, especially in its pop culture manifestations (consider how frequently a television show such as The Simpsons or Mystery Science Theater 3000 makes use of quotes and citations).
^Jacques Derrida's dictum "The text is everything" is ambiguous, if not wrong and notorious. In contrast, the context used to go beyond the text proper, e.g., social, cultural, historical, or the like context in ordinary language practice. In the "context theory of reference" in The Meaning of Meaning (1923), Ogden & Richards extended from the "literarary" to the "psychological" and "external" contexts relating to the corners of the triangle of reference.
