Text and hypertext

Points for discussion:

• The word `text' is massively polysemous. What are its meanings?
• Are texts signs? Are hypertexts signs?
• What is a sign?
• How do signs relate to speakers, hearers, the situation of utterance, ... ?
• Is there a definable text syntax, as opposed to sentence syntax, or are the relations in texts just special cases of the relations in sentences?
• What might text semantics be?
• What does the pragmatics of text -- maybe `text acts', analogous to `speech acts', and text-based dialogue?

Search

• the web,
• the library,

for definitions of

• text,
• hypertext,
• hyperdocument,
• hyperlexicon,
• hyperanything else ....