Unit 11

• the circumstances that give an idea about an event, statement, or written material so that it can be fully understood

  Context
• the main topic of the author’s work. It can be anything under the sun: culture, history, politics, society, economy, religion, current events, etc.

  Subject
• the author’s reason for writing

  purpose
• the tone, style, diction, organization, and content of the author’s work depend on his or her target audience or readers

  Audience
• this may compel the writer to write, especially if it is significant or relevant to him or her personally. It can be his or her personal motivation to choose what to write about and how to write it.


  Occasion or situation
• They create a link or connection between their work and other texts. It is the relationship formed between the two texts.

  Intertextuality
• a French author, introduced the concept of intertextuality

  Julia Kristeva
• It is an arrangement of information in a computer database, in which objects like text, pictures, and programs are linked to one another

  hypertext
• a nonlinear way of showing information in a text.

  hypertext
• Hypertext is a text that references, alludes to, or is derived from another text, which is called the

  Hypotext