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This document discusses reading comprehension skills like understanding context and intertextuality. [CONTEXT] refers to the social, cultural, political, and historical circumstances surrounding a text that provide meaning. [INTERTEXTUALITY] describes how texts reference one another through similarities in language, themes, or subjects. [HYPERTEXTUALITY] allows readers to access additional information on a topic through links, providing a non-linear reading experience and connecting readers to related multimedia content to enrich understanding.

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Hypertext

This document discusses reading comprehension skills like understanding context and intertextuality. [CONTEXT] refers to the social, cultural, political, and historical circumstances surrounding a text that provide meaning. [INTERTEXTUALITY] describes how texts reference one another through similarities in language, themes, or subjects. [HYPERTEXTUALITY] allows readers to access additional information on a topic through links, providing a non-linear reading experience and connecting readers to related multimedia content to enrich understanding.

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***READING and WRITING SKILLS***

HYPERTEXTUALITY AND INTERTEXTUALITY


Being a critical reader also involves understanding that texts are always developed with a certain context. A text is
neither written nor read in a vacuum; its meaning and interpretation are affected by a given set of circumstances.

CONTEXT – is defined as the social, cultural, political, historical, and other related circumstances that surround the text
and from the terms from which it can be better understood and evaluated.

In discovering a text’s context, you may ask questions like:


 When was the work written?
 What were the circumstances that produced it?
 What issues deal with it?

Intertextuality
Is the modelling of a text’s meaning by another text. It is defined as the connections between language, images,
characters, themes, or subjects depending on their similarities in language, genre or discourse .
This view recognizes that the text is always influenced by previous texts.

A text contains many layers of accumulated, cultural, historical, and social knowledge, which continually adds to
and affects one another.

Common example of Intertextuality


We use different examples of intertextuality frequently in common speech, like the following:
1. He was lying so obviously, you could almost see his nose growing.
2. He’s asking her to the prom. It’s like a happy version of Romeo and Juliet.
3. It’s hard being an adult! Peter Pan had the right idea.

Fan fiction- Is a great example of intertextuality. In fan fiction, authors enter the fictional worlds of other authors and
create their own stories.

Function of Intertextuality
A majority of writers borrow ideas from previous works to give a layer of meaning to their own works. Since
readers take influence from other texts, and while reading new texts they sift through archives, this device gives them
relevance and clarifies their understanding of the new texts.

Hypertextuality
Hypertextuality refers to text branching where readers are directed to text branching where readers are directed to
other materials that provide additional information to some of the ideas discussed in a text.

The use of hypertext provides a non-linear way of dealing with a text where links are provided between
information. Readers are linked to different sources to enrich learning and research experience especially if there are
unfamiliar information mentioned in a text.

Connects topics on a screen to related information, graphics, videos and music – information is not simply related
to text. This information appears as links and is usually accessed by clicking. The readers can jump to more information
about a topic, which in turn may have more links. This opens up the reader to a wider horizon of information

Hypertext allows readers to access information particularly suited to their needs. For example, if a reader still
needs more background on a particular item that a text is discussing, such as when a reader does not know a particular
term being used, the reader can choose to highlight that term and access a page that defines the term and describes it.

Most web browsers display the URL of a web page above the page in an address bar. A typical URL has this form:

http:// www.example.com/ index.html

protocol file name

host name

Today, links are not just limited to text or documents but may also incorporate other forms of multimedia such as
pictures, sounds and videos that stimulate more senses. This is called hypermedia.

Why hypertexts?

• In a hypertext system, the reader is free to navigate information by exploring the connections provided.
• Hypertext is a very different way of presenting information than the usual linear form.
• Text no longer flows in a straight line through a book. Instead, it is broken down into many smaller units (lexias, to
borrow a term from literary criticism), each addressing a few issues.

It acts as a bridge between two basic, opposite, and complementing elements that may be called gender of
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