Context of Text Development Flashcards
A non-linear way to present information and is usually accomplished using “links”.
Hypertext
A global hypertext system of information residing on servers linked across the internet.
World Wide Web (www)
Who coined the term ‘hypertext’?
Ted Nelson
When was the term ‘hypertext’ coined?
1963
Colloquially termed a web address, it is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
Links are not just limited to text or documents but may also incorporate other forms of multimedia such as pictures, sounds and videos that stimulate more senses.
Hypermedia
It refers to a work whose meaning is shaped by referencing or calling to mind other texts.
Intertext
It is the restatement of a story or re-expression of a narrative.
Retelling
It is the method of directly lifting the exact statements or set of words from a text another author has made.
Quotation
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.
Allusion
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.
Pastiche