Organisation

Every participant has to create his/her own website in order to summarize the lectures and present his/her results on tasks and quizzes.

The portfolio is subdivided into three categories:
- a learner's diary
- tasks/quizzes
- glossary


Text Linguistics


Our first lecture dealt with the questions:
- What is a text?
- What is a hypertext?

What is a text?

There a many examples of different kind of texts:

- a novel
- a poem
- a dictionary
- a hypertext
...

All of these examples of texts have three kinds of properties:

       

- formulation  (text structure)
- appearance   (media)
- meaning        (semantics,pragmatics)

Every text has a formulation (structure) which is given by the author. It developed in the author's mind and can not be changed by the reader.

The appearance (dependant from a form of media used) of a text can be different ( e.g. novel, dictionary...)

The meaning (study of pragmatics and semantics) affects the interpretation of the media.


What is a hypertext?

A hypertext is a text with either conventional hierachial parts or a complex network of parts.

Every document on the internet is a hypertext. For example this page is a hypertext. It contains several hyperlinks which refer to the glossary.