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Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods
Edited by Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 36] 2021
► pp. 123–142

Chapter 7
Reading hyperlinks in hypertext fiction

An Empirical Approach

| Chemnitz University of Technology
| Bournemouth University
| Sheffield Hallam University
| University of Alberta
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2. Hyperlinks in hypertext fiction
  • 3.Different typologies
  • 4.Our empirical approach to hyperlinks
  • 5.Analysis
    • 5.1New Pics, Rain, Danish
    • 5.2Last Summer, Thing
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Data
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 8 February 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.36.07van
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