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• Hypertext


  A non-linear way to present information and is usually accomplished using "links"
• Hypertext


  • Allows the readers to create their own meaning out of the material given to them and learn better associatively
  • Text displayed on a computer display or other electronic devices with references to other text that the reader can immediately access
  • Interconnected by hyperlinks, which are typically activated by a mouse click, keypress set, or by touching the screen
  • Rather than remaining static like traditional text, hypertext makes a dynamic organization of information possible through links and connections (called hyperlink)
  • The foundation of World Wide Web enabling users to click on link to obtain more information on a subsequent page on the same site or from website anywhere in the world
• Uniform Resource Locator (URL)


  A reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it
• Today, links are not just limited to text or documents but may also incorporate other forms of multimedia such as images, audio, and videos that stimulate more senses. This is called hypermedia.
• Hypertext system


  • The reader is free to navigate information by exploring the connections provided
  • Text no longer flows in a straight line through a book. Instead, it is broken down into many smaller units (lexias, to borrow a term from literary criticism), each addressing a few issues
  • Acts as a bridge between two basic, opposite, and complementing elements that may be called gender of knowledge representation: free and shortcut
• Intertextuality


  One method of text development that enables the author to make another text based on another text
• Intertextuality


  • Happens when some properties of an original text are incorporated in the text that is created by another author
  • The author as highly influenced by another author comes up with his own version of the text consciously or unconsciously incorporating the style and other characteristics of the text done by that author
• Retelling


  The restatement of a story or re-expression of a narrative
• Quotation


  The method of directly lifting the exact statements or set of words from a text another author has made
• Allusion


  A writer or speaker explicitly or implicitly pertains to an idea or passage found in another text without the use of quotation
• Pastiche


  A text developed in a way that it copies the style or other properties of another text without making fun of it unlike in a parody
• Intertextuality has rooted from the work of a Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913). Meanwhile, the term itself was first used by Bulgarian-French philosopher and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva in the 1960s.
• If the reader has affirmation towards these questions, the texts he/she is dealing with contains intertext.