Explanation
The shaping of persuasion and meaning through links, nodes, navigation paths and non-linear textual order. Turns the architecture of what can be clicked into a rhetorical means of selection and attention.
Example
A highlighted crosslink makes one reading more likely than ten hidden links.
Counterexample
A plain factual statement without the named movement of thought.
Distinction
Unlike intertextuality, hypertext rhetoric also concerns the technically navigable organisation of relations.
Effect on thought and perception
Turns the architecture of what can be clicked into a rhetorical means of selection and attention.
Resonance
Turns the architecture of what can be clicked into a rhetorical means of selection and attention.
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Reich, Michael (Hrsg./ed.): „Hypertext rhetoric“. Atlas der Sprache, AT-RES6B-0013. ATLAS 251, data model 1.6.0. https://atlasoflanguage.com/concept/AT-RES6B-0013The address remains stable; editorial content may evolve. A verified modification date per entry is not yet available. Include your access date for precise references.