hypertext & intertext

• Hypertext- Non-linear way to present information


  Usually accomplished using "LINKS"
• Links


  • Allow the readers to create their own meaning out of the material given to them and learn better associatively
  • Help the readers navigate further information about the topic being discussed
  • Lead to other links that can direct the readers to various options
• Hypertext


  A global system of information residing on servers linked across the internet
• Hypertextuses hyperlinks


  • Readers can easily access more information about the topic
• Intertext


  Interconnected, interrelated or linked with a previous text or even current one
• Intertextuality


  • Text meaning through another text that shows connections among language, images, characters, themes or subjects/topics
  • Text influenced by other text borrowed text from the past
  • Shaping of the text, referencing or calling to mind other text as it aims to add meaning to the current text
• JULIA KRISTEVA - There are no unique or original texts


  1960's, Intertext
• Ferdinand de Saussure - Swiss Linguist works for intertextuality
• Types of Intertextuality

  • Retelling
  • Quotation
  • Allusion
  • Pastiche
• Retelling


  Restatement of a story or re-expressions of a narrative
• Quotation


  Directly lifting the exact statement or set of words from a text another author has made
• Allusion


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


  Copies the style or other properties of another text without making fun of it unlike in a parody
• Questions Used to Validate Intertextuality


  • Are there two or more stories involved?
  • Does the text show direct or indirect connection to another piece of work?
• context- social, cultural, political and historical background and other related circumstances that surrounds the text (time/period it was written)
• Ted Nelson- coined the term hypertext
• www- global hypertext system
• url- readers can easily access more information