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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