Abstract
<jats:p>The article examines issues of intertextuality and interdiscursivity, used in modern linguistic science as a form of text analysis, and the specifics of their application in fairy-tale discourse. The purpose of article is to identify intertextuality and interdiscursivity in fairy-tale discourse. The research used method of discourse analysis, semantic-stylistic method, method of definitional analysis, method of contextual analysis, method of comparison. The study analyzes author's fairy tales in Kazakh and Russian, category of intertextuality and interdiscursivity in folk tales. Precedent characters in fairy tales, precedent concepts, explicit information, cultural codes, and recurring episodes are considered the main signs of intertextuality and interdiscursivity. The main signs of intertextuality and interdiscursivity in a fairy tale help reader to understand text, compare it with previous information, reason, and draw conclusions.</jats:p>