Designing Hypertext: What We Can Learn from Linguistics and Discourse Research
http://www.stc.org/confproceed/1996/PDFs/PG382.PDF

Eiler, Mary Ann
STC Proceedings
1996

Abstract:

Hypertext are implied in complex linear texts like literary analysis. These texts 'model' hypertext nodes and links in their linguistic properties and constitute a system of semantic messages and cohesive ties. A conceptual bridge between conventional and hyper-texts can be constructed for technical and scientific applications based on these linguistic properties. Linguistic analysis can also serve as a cohesive construct extending to visual and auditory displays in hyperdocuments. Hypertext instructional designers are challenged to impose comparable mappings as analogues to these cohesive relationships to test memory, distance, and other variables.