Features of Legal Text Hyperlinks Functioning
The paper discusses the features of the functioning of hyperlinks in non-electronic (printed) hypertext. There are three types of semantically labeled hyperlinks in legal text: obvious, non-obvious and open. The first type of hyperlinks are the names of legal documents (laws, regulations, etc.). These hyperlinks coincide in design with the source text (not formally featured), and contain a direct or indirect (the name of the document is indicated in brackets) indication of the need to refer to a different text fragment. The second type of semantic hyperlinks are special legal terms that need to be defined through the attraction of specific legislative texts (texts-objects of links). Open hyperlinks combine the features of the first two types; they refer the reader to the entire legislation as a whole or to any part of it.