Hypertext Semantics

How does the medium of hypertext, including both its forms and the practices, artifacts, and technologies which comprise it, dispose towards principles of organization and sequencing of information and meaning, in the medium itself as object-text, and in the traversal practices of the user, as meaning-text? What are the currently typical organizations of meaning and their interpretations by users? What are alternative strategies for meaning-development, both in authoring and in using hypertexts? How do existing and potential meaning organizations differ from those of more linear text media? How do the principles of intertextuality and co-text contextualization translate in the hypertext medium? What are the analogues of multivariate structural organization and co-variate textual-cohesive organization? How are text units constructed so as to facilitate construal of semantic ties between linked units?


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