SAPIENTIA Journal of Philosophy

Recontextualization is a process that transposes an existing text into a different period to give it another meaning through re-writing, according to Gerard Genette. It is a concept widely studied in the linguistic domain; it is also a concept of interdisciplinarity. Some researchers have theorized a good number of conceptions of the recontextualisation, everyone brings into light different aspects of reutilization of works, signs, and meanings outside their original contexts. So many theories such as Fiarcough’s Critical Discourse Analysis, Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice, Bakhtin’s Concept of Dialogism, Hali’s Encoding/ Decoding Model, Fiske’s Theories of Media, etc. all from different fields of studies. This work aims to apply recontextualisation to demonstrate the possibility of another text from the existing text. Two texts under consideration are l’Etranger of Camus, and Meursault contre-enquete of Kamel. Our theoretical approach is the Transtextuality of Gerard Genette, where intertextual connections on both transtextuality and hypertextuality are demonstrated. Our structural analysis is based on Bernstein’s concepts of recontextualisation: transformation, substitution, deletion, rearrangement, addition, repetition, and reaction.

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