Web text – an attempt of characteristic

Abstract

The aim of this article is to present a characteristic of a web text, based on looking through varius definitions of text and confront them with hypertext. The author compare traditional and nontraditional approaches to text, based on works of such researchers as: Teresa Dobrzyńska, Jerzy Bartmiński and Stanisława Niebrzegowska-Bartmińska, Anna Duszak, Wojciech Kalaga and Jurij Łotman. A significant referance point to presented deliberations are W. Kalaga's proposals, included in his work Mgławice dyskursu, which emphasize openness of text, its constant "being in motion" (semiotic motion). In the light of nontraditional proposals of approach to the idead of text, it is perceived as dynamic phenomenon and as a process on varius levels (semantic, communicative). This way of perceiving text brings it close to hypertext as and open, unfinished form, which is constntly shaped by a user. An important role when it comes to hypertext is played by links, because they enable an adressee to create a web text. Comparison of different approaches to the idea of text and juxtapose them with characteristic of hypertext makes possible to point out important features of web text.