Below, I provide in diagrammatic form an overview of the some of the key options for variation in attribution. When options or systems are included in curly brackets, this indicates that choices from these options will be made simultaneously or accumulatively. Thus in the diagram below, the left-most curly bracket indicates that when attributing, we must simultaneously make a choice as to endorsement AND a choice as to source type AND a choice as to textual integration. The square brackets indicate that the speaker/writer chooses between options, that is to say, just the one option must be taken up.)
Figure 3: Overview of intertextual positioning
