Latent and manifest hypertexts

To relate more traditional texts with hypertexts we can start with a distinction between

1. latent hyperstructures
2. manifest hyperstructures

in texts.

On this basis,

• the abstract underlying structures which can be assigned to traditional texts by linguistic analysis can be used as a starting point for defining latent textual hyperstructures underlying traditional texts, and
• strategies can be defined for developing manifest textual hyperstructures with non-concatenative hierarchical or heterarchical structure.

Tasks:

1. Identify a number of traditional text sorts with their characteristic underlying structures.
2. Try to classify the structures into different shapes -- linear or concatenative, hierarchical tree-shaped, more complex graph structures.
3. How are textual structures traditionally `navigated'? You can refer to such different kinds of text as newspapers, dictionaries, novels.