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W4 Hypertext and Intertext Compressed

The document explains the concepts of hypertext and intertextuality, highlighting their significance in modern reading and writing. Hypertext allows for non-linear information access through links, enhancing reader engagement and understanding, while intertextuality involves creating new texts influenced by existing ones through methods like retelling and quotation. Both hypertext and intertext serve as dynamic methods of text development that reflect the interconnectedness of ideas in literature.

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W4 Hypertext and Intertext Compressed

The document explains the concepts of hypertext and intertextuality, highlighting their significance in modern reading and writing. Hypertext allows for non-linear information access through links, enhancing reader engagement and understanding, while intertextuality involves creating new texts influenced by existing ones through methods like retelling and quotation. Both hypertext and intertext serve as dynamic methods of text development that reflect the interconnectedness of ideas in literature.

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1.

Understand the concept of hypertext and


intertextuality;

2. Obtain information in a customized way


through hypertext;

3. Determine the key elements of


intertextuality;

4. Differentiate intertext from other types of


text development; and

5. Identify hypertext and intertext as methods


of text development.
Reading online is a dynamic visual thrill that draws
learners’ attention and engages them in various
creative or vivid ways to learn, apart from the usual
physical white pages. Since the majority of our 21st
century learners gain knowledge from visuals, they
learn by reading or seeing pictures. Thus, online
reading is deemed significant for it triggers one’s
imagination, boosts one’s creative thinking, and
builds one’s understanding of the “big picture.”
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 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.
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.
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.
Intertextuality is affected by the
texts that came before it, since
those texts influenced the author’s
thinking and aesthetic choices.
Remember: every text (in the
broadest sense) is intertextual.
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.
James Joyce’s Ulysses was a
deliberate retelling of Homer’s
Odyssey, but transplanted out
of ancient Greece into modern-
day Dublin.
Imagine yourself as a writer.
Write a two-paragraph story
(three-four sentences) using
intertext as the mode of text
development. Include a
reference such as a word,
phrase, concept, quotation of
another work in your text.

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