A study on anaphors in hypertexts

Abstract

The literature on the study of anaphoric processes commonly explores the resumption of referents in a given textual materiality. However, the discussion proposed in this article starts from the idea that the speech objects of a text can be transposed to other linguistic materialities. In the constructions that characterize hypertext, for example, a dynamics of referents allows this observation. Therefore, the objective of this approach is to discuss anaphoric referential processes in texts propagated in hypertext situations, whose characteristic is the possibility of transit through different linguistic surfaces. We support this analysis on the studies by Mondada and Dubois (2003) and Apothéloz (2003) to address referencing; Alves Filho et al (2017), Xavier (2010), among other authors, who discuss hypertext. To account for the purpose in question, we analyzed news in which the transit of referents between textual surfaces is noticed. In this perspective, we understand that there is space for the characterization of what we will call hypertextual anaphor, because, from the analysis performed, we can see the creation of an anaphoric network between the texts. Thus, we conclude that this study can expand the scope of anaphoric referential processes, based on the dynamics of anaphors for the textual construction of meanings.