Hypertext Engineering: Linguistics and the Web

Dafydd Gibbon

October 1996

 
• Computational Linguistics and Web Design
• Web documents as situated signs
• Signs: additional levels of abstraction
• Pragmatics, semantics, and more
• De Saussure's Conceptualistic Circuit Model (1915)
• Bühler's Constitutive Factors (1934)
• Bühler's Instrumental (Organon) Model (1934)
• Warren Weaver's three levels of problems in communication (1949)
• Claude Shannon's mathematical model of communication (1949)
• Jakobson's Constitutive Factors Model (1960)
• Functional structure of Jakobson's Constitutive Factors Model (1960)
• Role granularity (1985)
• Semantics: indexicality
• Semantics: confidentiality
• Searle's Speech Act Theory (1969)
• Searle on Speech Acts as interdependent components (1969)
• Searle's inventory of illocutionary force indicating devices (1969)
• Searle on `How to promise: a complicated way' (1969)
• Searle's felicity conditions for promising (1969)
• Grice's Cooperative Principle and the Conversational Maxims (1975)
• Pragmatics: actions
• Hypertext pragmatics: Hypertext acts?
• Hypertext pragmatics: The Functional Cycle
• Text syntax: the markup language hierarchy
• Syntax and semantics
• Levels of form and appearance
• Analogy with linguistic levels
• Formatting languages
• Format and control
• Current languages as layout languages
• Browser semantics -- graph traversal
• Multimedia objects
• Linguistic tools: Hyperlexica
• Conclusion: Recommendations?
• A general design procedure
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