A pragmatics of links

Tosca, Susana

doi:10.1145/336296.336327

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“…However, because redirective referentiality is an overt feature of hypertext as a text type, even relatively obscure linkings are seen as perfectly acceptable and not as a violation of textual wellformedness. Mindful of this, Susana Pajares Tosca (2000) suggests that, because the strategies adopted in hypertextual linking tend to resemble those found in literary and even poetic texts (such as metaphorical and allusive transitions between text elements), hypertextual linking is most successfully approached by treating texts using it as literary texts right from the start.…”

Section: Making Sense Of Digital Textualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Making sense of digital textuality

Tyrkkö

2007

European Journal of English Studies

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One of the fundamental developments brought about by interactive and multilinear digital technology is the greater structural fragmentation of texts and the consequent reevaluation of textual coherence. While the concept of text is contingent on some internal coherence, the new text type of electronic hypertext places new challenges on this paradigm by allowing ways of reading texts which would appear to disturb rather than build coherence. In relying on the flexible negotiation of readerly expectations with actual continuities experienced as the reading progresses, hypertextual coherence both encourages us to re-evaluate the rules of textual coherence from a more pragmatically oriented point of view and echoes some of the most recent theoretical views of how we interpret words in their surrounding co-text. This article presents an outline for a linguistic analysis of hypertextual coherence and points out the new dimensions of coherence left unaccounted for by conventional models. What happens when multilinearity makes texts unstable? How do we discuss a text -or meaningfully refer to one -if each reading has the power of transforming the potential narrative lines of a hypertext into a new literary object which may have never existed prior to that reading? Digital media rely on a new understanding of texts not as definitive objects, but as networks of relationships and meanings which by their very nature are relative, transitory, and subject to change at any moment. The potentially disturbing effects of such textual characteristics are counter-acted by the new, more fluid concept of digital coherence.

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Making sense of digital textuality

Tyrkkö

2007

European Journal of English Studies

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“…The role of linking plays an important role, a core theme in hypertext literature [14,18,23]. Authors can be provided with a collection of techniques for reducing undesired structural complexity and create documents that readers can traverse more easily [3,5,13].…”

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Supporting the generation of argument structure within video sequences

Bocconi

Nack

Hardman

2005

Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia

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C e n t r u m v o o r W i s k u n d e e n I n f o r m a t i c a INformation SystemsSupporting the generation of argument structure within video sequences S. Bocconi, F.-M. Nack, L. Hardman Supporting the generation of argument structure within video sequences ABSTRACT Browsing is a useful way of exploring annotated media repositories. Sets of links can be automatically created from the annotations associated with the media items in the repository. When there are also relationships among the annotations themselves, such as when the annotation terms are part of a thesaurus, these relations can also be used in the link generation process. Using structured annotations and a thesaurus for generating link sets has two advantages. The first is to evaluate the effectiveness of the terms in the thesaurus for classifying the media items in the repository. The second is to be able to control the links being generated by changing relationships within the thesaurus. The work is illustrated using video segments annotated with argument structures, but we show that the method used is independent of the media types and applicable to systems that use similar annotation structures and typed relations among them. REPORT INS-E0504 MARCH 2005 INS ABSTRACTBrowsing is a useful way of exploring annotated media repositories. Sets of links can be automatically created from the annotations associated with the media items in the repository. When there are also relationships among the annotations themselves, such as when the annotation terms are part of a thesaurus, these relations can also be used in the link generation process. Using structured annotations and a thesaurus for generating link sets has two advantages. The first is to evaluate the effectiveness of the terms in the thesaurus for classifying the media items in the repository. The second is to be able to control the links being generated by changing relationships within the thesaurus.The work is illustrated using video segments annotated with argument structures, but we show that the method used is independent of the media types and applicable to systems that use similar annotation structures and typed relations among them.

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“…[48,6,27,33] discuss the rhetoric of links and maps and the way they relate to cognitive attitudes. [18] discusses how interface design and navigation options may enhance or diminish immersion and engagement in hyperreading.…”

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Context perception in video-based hypermedia spaces

Chambel

Guimarães

2002

Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia

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Multimedia hypertext has grown from the basic addition of dynamic media only at "leaf" nodes of the hypertext, to higher structured attempts to compose and integrate the different media. One of the core problems in this evolution has been, and still is, the construction and perception of context, making explicit which part of a presentation is relevant when media elements are integrated. The search for contextualized integration of video material with other sources of information has emerged from the work in several domains and from mutually reinforcing needs. The work presented here is centered on this problem: how to provide the perception of context to users or readers, when navigating through a space of heterogeneous media elements, where video plays an important role.

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A pragmatics of links

Cited by 25 publications

References 14 publications

Making sense of digital textuality

Making sense of digital textuality

Supporting the generation of argument structure within video sequences

Context perception in video-based hypermedia spaces

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