Functions of Language
and
Web Hypertext Design

Dafydd Gibbon
U Bielefeld
May 1996

• 1 Language Variety Space
• 2 De Saussure's Conceptualistic Circuit Model (1915)
• 3 De Saussure's Langue / Parole distinction (1915)
• 4 Bühler's Constitutive Factors (1934)
• 5 Bühler's Instrumental (Organon) Model (1934)
• 6 Warren Weaver's three levels of problems in communication (1949)
• 7 Claude Shannon's mathematical model of communication (1949)
• 8 Jakobson's Constitutive Factors Model (1960)
• 9 Functional structure of Jakobson's Constitutive Factors Model (1960)
• 10 Gibbon's Contextual Role Hierarchy Model (1985)
• 11 Functional structure of the Contextual Role Hierarchy Model (1985)
• 12 Role granularity in the Contextual Role Hierarchy Model (1985)
• 13 Searle's Speech Act Theory (1969)
• 14 Searle on Speech Acts as interdependent components (1969)
• 15 Searle's inventory of illocutionary force indicating devices (1969)
• 16 Searle on `How to promise: a complicated way' (1969)
• 17 Searle's felicity conditions for promising (1969)
• 18 Grice's Cooperative Principle and the Conversational Maxims (1975)
• 19 Text syntax: the markup language hierarchy
• 20 Syntax and semantics
• 21 Hypertext pragmatics: Hypertext acts
• 22 Hypertext pragmatics: The Functional Cycle
• 23 Some considerations for Web hypertext design
• 24 A general design procedure
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