citationality

English

Etymology

citational +‎ -ity

Noun

citationality (countable and uncountable, plural citationalities)

1. A measure of the relative number of citations in a work.
2. A Derridan idea of "signatures" within a work that have recognizable form and can be repeated.
   • 2016, Constantine V. Nakassis, Doing Style: Youth and Mass Mediation in South India, page 230:

     And the citationality of these acts—and the calibration of such citationalities to each other—materializes as the very media forms in question.

   • 2022, Dustin Tahmahkera, Cinematic Comanches: The Lone Ranger in the Media Borderlands, page 16:

     Yet the old guard continues to admit new heirs in the ongoing popular and scholarly formations of competing Comanche citationalities, in which the same dated literature serves as an unmatched model and inspiration for “new” work that rehashes old anti-Indigenous ideology.