Analyzing hypertext as a sign system
is not a mere extension of the semiotic project for the sake of
completeness; rather, this approach promises insights that can help
to make that medium a more useful, intuitive, rich and productive
one: ”As opposed to any form of sequential closed communications,
hypermedia requires means for and ways of generating an infinity
of meaningful interpretations. A non-linear structure is, after
all, a graph constituted from nodes and links. The semiotic level
of such nodes and links is quite abstract, but without a good understanding
of these communicational entities, we will never exercise an efficient
command of the process of generating the infinity of meaningful
interpretations”