Hyper-Text-Linguistik

This doctoral thesis suggests a text-linguistic approach dealing with linked

electronic texts, so called HYPERTEXTS. After explaining the concept and

philosophy of the hypertext-idea and elaborating on a pragmatic definition of

WWW-hypertexts (Part A of the thesis), a linguistic framework, the

Textlinguistisches Analysemodell für Hypertexte (TAH), is proposed (Part B).

TAH provides a pragmatic-functional, top-down model to analyze CONTEXT,

FUNCTION and STRUCTURE of complete hypertexts and the hypertext-components

NODE and LINK. Main aim of TAH is to strictly separate the different aspects of

each hypertext- and linguistic level – without isolating them.

The theoretical approach of TAH is used for a case study (Part C). Therefore a

corpus of WWW-hypertexts, mainly informative and instructive ones, is

examined with TAH-methods. Aim of this study is on the one hand to provide

some sort of evidence for the plausibility of TAH and is on the other hand linked

with a specific question of research: It deals with possibilities provided by

linguistics to enhance hypertext-links with logically, semantically and/or

rhetorically typed information. The conclusion of the study is to distinguish

exactly between semantics of a deepstructure-knowledge-presentation, semantic

and rhetoric relations of the surface, i.e. the hypertext the user can see, and the

layout or traversal behavior respectively of the user interface, i.e. the browsersoftware.

Part C mainly deals with problems of typed links on the surface of

hypertexts.

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