Pragmatic aspect of citation

The article is devoted to the research of the pragmatic aspect of citation in fictional text from the intertextual point of view. The theory of intertextuality was formed in the works of M.Bakhtin and developed by Y. Kristeva after the analysis of the works of post-modern writers. So allusion and citation began to be investigated not from the philology point of view only but from the linguistics as well. The purpose of the article is to investigate the pragmatic aspect of citation which includes also the investigation of its pragmatic functions. Different views on the citation classification are also mentioned in the article as it is an actual problem in modern linguistics. Novels by British writer J. Fforde are the material for the investigation article because they possess a big amount of intertextual inclusion in the text in general and citation in particular.