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The paratext of digital documents
Journal of Documentation ( IF 2.034 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-17 , DOI: 10.1108/jd-06-2020-0106
Roswitha Skare

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to provide a discussion on how to apply Genette's concept of the paratext to analyze digital documents. The article argues that the concept, despite its shortcomings, is useful because it gives us the terminology to analyze elements often ignored and overlooked.

Design/methodology/approach

By taking Gérard Genette's concept of the paratext as point of departure, the paper focuses on three controversial issues in the scholarly work about paratext and digital documents: the division of paratext into peritext and epitext, the explosive growth of paratext and the question of authorization of text and paratext.

Findings

Questions related to the spatial division of the paratext into peritext and epitext, the difficulty of where to draw the line between text and paratext and the question of authorization are not new for digital documents but did already occur in the analog world. Even if many decisions like what to include and what to exclude in an analysis are left to the researcher, this does not mean that Genette's concept is unsuitable for digital documents. On the contrary, the concept gives us the terminology to analyze elements of often ignored and overlooked, also for digital documents.

Research limitations/implications

As a scholar in the humanities the author can only relate to and therefore analyze what the author can experience and observe on screen level.

Originality/value

In providing a discussion of digital documents and some of the controversial issues discussed by other researchers, this article shows the relevance of Genette's concept, also for our work with digital documents.



中文翻译:

数字文件的天堂

目的

这项研究的目的是提供有关如何使用Genette的超文本概念分析数字文档的讨论。文章认为,尽管有这个缺点,但该概念还是有用的,因为它为我们提供了用于分析经常被忽略和忽略的元素的术语。

设计/方法/方法

本文以盖拉德·吉内特(GérardGenette)的超文本概念为出发点,着重研究了关于超文本和数字文档的学术研究中的三个有争议的问题:将超文本分为周文本和附加文本,超文本的爆炸性增长以及对文本的授权问题。文字和副文字。

发现

有关副文本在空间文本和副文本之间的空间划分,在文本和副文本之间划界的难度以及授权问题等问题,对于数字文档来说并不是新问题,但在模拟世界中已经出现。即使将分析中包括哪些内容和排除哪些内容等许多决定留给了研究人员,这并不意味着Genette的概念不适合数字文档。相反,该概念为我们提供了用于分析经常被忽略和忽视的元素(也适用于数字文档)的术语。

研究局限/意义

作为人文学科的学者,作者只能与人联系,因此只能分析作者在屏幕上可以体验和观察的内容。

创意/价值

在讨论数字文档以及其他研究人员讨论的一些有争议的问题时,本文显示了Genette的概念与我们处理数字文档的相关性。

更新日期:2021-02-18
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