CONCEPT NOTE 6 : Context of Text Development (INTERTEXT and HYPERTEXT)

CONTEXT

 The time or period the text was written

 What circumstances produced the text?
 Issues the text tackles o deals with

INTERTEXTUALITY/INTERTEXT
INTER- means used to form meaning between or among groups of people, things or
places.
TEXT- the written words in a book or a magazine.

ACCORDING TO JULIA KRISTEVA.

A literary work is not simply the product of a single author, but of its relationship to
other texts and to the structures of language itself. (THERE ARE RELATIONSHIPS
AMONG TEXTS.)
Example:
 Pinocchio and Honesto
 Taylor swift’s song “Love story” makes intertextual references to Romeo and
Juliet and The Scarlet Letter; “Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter And
my daddy said stay away from Juliet”

HYPERTEXT
2 TYPES OF READING
 LINEAR TEXT – There is only one reading path, which is decided by the author. Ex. All printed
material.
 NON-LINEAR TEXT- There are multiple reading paths, they are determined by the reader.

HYPERTEXT-
 Hyper(excessive)
 is something beyond text more than simple,
plain or ordinary text.
 -according to Nelson (1987) described
hypertext as a series of chunks connected by
links that offer readers different pathways.
 When you type a word and attach a link to that
word so that upon clicking on the word, the
reader is sent to the site attached.
 Hypertext is non linear documents by clicking on hot spots
In the text. The readers immediately transported to related
Material in the document.
Note:
Hypertext- text only
Hypermedia- not just a text but also images, sounds. Animation or videos.
Multimedia- linking images, sounds and texts