The books weтАЩve read, the films weтАЩve seen, the stories weтАЩve heard - and just as importantly the ones we havenтАЩt тАУ form an integral part of our identity. Recognising a reference to a text can result in feelings of pleasure, expertise and even smugness; being lost as to a referenceтАЩs possible significance can lead to alienation from a text or conversation. Intertextuality in Practice offers readers a cognitively-grounded framework for hands-on analysis of intertextuality, both in written texts and spoken discourse. The book offers a historical overview of existing research, highlighting that most of this work focuses on what intertextuality тАШisтАЩ conceptually, rather than how it can be identified, described and analysed. Drawing on research from literary criticism, neuroscience, linguistics and sociology, this book proposes a cognitive stylistic approach, presenting the тАШnarrative interrelation frameworkтАЩ as a way of operationalising the concept of intertextuality to enable close practical analysis.