Parody As Hybridic Text: Research Report/ Onderwysstudente Se Parodiee As Hibridiese Tekste: 'N Navorsingsverslag‪.‬

Abstract Parody can be seen as one of the techniques of self-referentiality through which a consciousness of the context dependency of meaning is revealed in an aesthetic way. This article explores the theoretical background of parody as literary style against which the researcher challenged a group of teacher education students in a research programme to generate their own parodies. The task required that they choose a well-known fairy tale and use its structure to mock their own society. Students of another group were asked as the writers' peers to read the stories in order to engage in a dialogue between encoder and decoder in the process of reception.