Hypertextuality and Intertextuality

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Hypertextuality and Intertextuality - non-linear way to present information and is usually accomplished using "links"
Hypertexuality and Intertextuality - allows reader to create their own meaning out of the given material given and learn better associatively
world wide web - it is the global hypertext system of information residing on servers linked across the internet.
Ted Nelson - coined the term hypertext in 1963
Hypertext - the reader is free to navigate information by exploring the connections provided.
Hypertext - very different way of presenting information than the usual linear form.
Hypertext - text no longer flows in a straight line through a book. Instead, it is broken down into many smaller units.
Hypertext - it acts a bridge between two basic, opposite, and complementing elements that may be called gender of knowledge, free and shortcut
Intertextuality - one method of text development that enables then author to make another text based on another text.
Intertextuality - process of text development that manages two or more processes such as limitation and creation in doing a text.
Intertextuality has rooted from the work of a swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure.
The term Intertextuality itself was first used by Bulgarian-french philosopher and psychoanalyst, Julia Kristeva
Key Elements of Intertextuality:
Quotation
Retelling
Allusion
Parody
Pastiche
Quotation - It is a method of directly lifting the exact statements or set of words from a text another author has made
Retelling - the restatement of a story or re-expression of a narrative
Allusion - a writer or speaker explicitly or implicitly pertains to an idea or passage found in another text without the use of quotation.
Parody - created by imitating an existing an existing original work in order to make fun of or comment on an aspect of the normal.
Pastiche - text developed in a way that it copies the styles or other properties of another text without making fun of it.