Text
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Text has several meanings (in alphbetical order:
- In hermeneutics, the text is the unit of interpretation.
- In hip hop, text is a thriving form of post-modern poetry popular on the Internet. It is also referred to as scrypt.
- In language, text is a broad term for something that contains words to express something.
- In linguistics a text is a communicative act, fulfilling the seven constitutive and the three regulative principles of textuality. Both speech and written language, or language in other media can be seen as a text within linguistics.
- In literary theory a text is the object being studied, whether it be a novel, a poem, a film, an advertisement, or anything else with a semiotic component. The broad use of the term derives from the rise of semiotics in the 1960s and was solidified by the later cultural studies of the 1980s, which brought a corresponding broadening of what it was one could talk about when talking about literature; see also discourse. Essentially, a text in this definition is anything that can be read.
- In mobile phone communication, a text (or text message) is a short digital message between devices, typically using SMS (short message service). The act of sending such a message is commonly referred to as texting.
- In philology, the text is the subject of study and interpretation.
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- Mowitt, John. Text: The Genealogy of an Antidisciplinary Object. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1992.
