Linguistic Mechanism of Hypermedia Structure in Multimedia Electronic Atlas

With hypermedia technology the structure of a publication can be re-arranged to accommodate the more easy cognition of the idea and concept transferred by it by linking the concepts which are represented by different media forms into an integrated concept. Essentially multimedia electronic atlas is a kind of electronic publication, which has many common characters with ordinary CD -ROM publications. For the deeper exploration of electronic atlas it is very important to understand the internal and general structure of the new media structure. The aim of this paper is to discuss the internal structure of multimedia electronic atlas as a whole by applying the methodology of linguistics.