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Meaning in the text during the reading is given also from the impact the text itself has on the reader and from all those elements identifiable as components of the “vehiculum” of the message (Petöfi, 1994) or that are part of its text-design (Hesse-Luttich, 1999).

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Tofoni, M.C., Montesanto, A. (2002). Web Usability: Meaning and Context. Over Data Structures. In: Minati, G., Pessa, E. (eds) Emergence in Complex, Cognitive, Social, and Biological Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0753-6_17

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