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Despite the fact that texts exist in social contexts, models of hypertext authoring — and the tools derived from them — generally exclude this important aspect of the structure and function of texts. The inevitable result is an almost total exclusion of information con-cerning the situational and cultural aspects of textual units. Authors (writers) and users (readers) require situational and cultural contexts in order to understand the meanings ne-gotiated in and by (hyper)texts. These aspects of (hyper)texts are generally ignored be-cause most models of language do not provide formal relationships between texts and their contexts. In this paper we describe how Systemic-Functional Linguistics (SFL), a semiotic model of language, can be used to create a dynamic hypertext model referred to as Systemic Functional Hypertexts (SFHT). This n-level hypertext model, the compo-nents of which are described using an ER Diagram, includes many aspects omitted from conventional hypertext models including: (i) text forming resources, (ii) intra- and inter-textual relations between texts and constituent text segments, occurring within their im-mediate (iii) situational and cultural contexts.
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Mehler, A., Clarke, R.J. (2002). Systemic Functional Hypertexts (SFHT):. In: Liu, K., Clarke, R.J., Andersen, P.B., Stamper, R.K., Abou-Zeid, ES. (eds) Organizational Semiotics. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 94. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35611-2_10
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