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Hypertext is a non-linear information presentation method that utilizes links for navigation, allowing readers to access related content dynamically. It forms the basis of the World Wide Web, enabling users to explore interconnected information, including multimedia elements. Intertextuality, a concept rooted in linguistic theory, involves the development of new texts influenced by existing ones through methods such as retelling, quotation, allusion, and pastiche.

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Hypertext is a non-linear information presentation method that utilizes links for navigation, allowing readers to access related content dynamically. It forms the basis of the World Wide Web, enabling users to explore interconnected information, including multimedia elements. Intertextuality, a concept rooted in linguistic theory, involves the development of new texts influenced by existing ones through methods such as retelling, quotation, allusion, and pastiche.

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Hypertext is a non-linear way to present information and is usually


accomplished using "links". Such links help the readers navigate further
information about the topic being discussed and may also lead to other links
that can direct the readers to various options. Hypertext also allows the
readers to create their meaning out of the material given to them and learn
better associatively.

Hypertext is text displayed on a computer display or other electronic devices


with references to other text that the reader can immediately access.
Hypertext documents are 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 possible a
dynamic organization of information through links and connections (called
hyperlink).

The World Wide Web (www) is a global hypertext system of information


residing on servers linked across the internet.

Hypertext is the foundation of the World Wide Web enabling users to click on
the link to obtain more information on a subsequent page on the same site
or from a website anywhere in the world.

The term hypertext was coined by Ted Nelson in 1963.

Hypertext allows readers to access information particularly suited to their


needs. For example, if a reader still needs more background on a particular
item that a text is discussing, such as when a reader does not know a
particular term being used, the reader can choose to highlight that term and
access a page that defines the term and describes it.

Conversely, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially termed a web


address, is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a
computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. URLs occur most
commonly to reference web pages (http), but are also used for file transfer
(ftp), email (mailto), database access (JDBC), and many other applications.
Most web browsers display the URL of a web page above the page in an
address bar.
A typical URL has this form:
http://www.example.com/index.html

Protocol File name Host name

Today, links are not just limited to text or documents but may also
incorporate other forms of multimedia such as pictures, sounds and videos
that stimulate more senses. This is called hypermedia.

Why hypertexts?
◦ In a hypertext system, the reader is free to navigate information by
exploring the connections provided.
◦ Hypertext is a very different way of presenting information than the
usual linear form.
• Text no longer flows in a straight line through a book. Instead, it is broken
down into many smaller units 9lexias, to borrow a term from literary
criticism). Each addressing a few issues.

*It acts as a bridge between two basic, opposite, and complementing


elements that may be called gender of knowledge representation: free and
shortcut

Intertextuality or intertext is one method of text development that


enables the author to make another text based on another text. It happens
when some properties of an original text are incorporated in the text that is
created by another author. One good reason why it occurs is perhaps the
second writer is greatly affected or influenced by the first writer leading to a
combination of imitation and creation.

Intertext or intertextuality is technically defined as a process of text


development that merges two more processes such as imitation and creation
in doing a text. It involves imitation because the author, as highly influenced
by another author comes up with his version of the text consciously or
unconsciously incorporating the style and other characteristics of the text
done by that author.

Elaboration on Intertextuality
Intertextuality has its roots in 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.
Intertextuality is said to take place using four specific methods namely:
retelling, pastiche, quotation, and allusion.

Table 1. Elaborating Intertextuality

Method Definition
Retelling It is the restatement of a story or
re-expression of a narrative
Quotation It is the method of directly lifting
the exact statements or set of
words from a text another author
has made.
Allusion In this method, a writer or
speaker explicitly or implicitly
pertains to an idea or passage
found in another text without the
use of quotation.
Pastiche It is 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

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