Text

In language, text is a broad term for something that contains words to express something.

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In linguistics 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.

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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 linguistic 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.

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In mobile phone communication, a text is a short digital message between devices. Also known as short message service

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In computing, text refers to character data, or to one of the segments of a program in memory.

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Linguistics: Broadly conceived, linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and a linguist is someone who engages in this study. (Lay people sometimes use the term linguistician, but as Aitchison 2003 points out, this is "too much of a tongue-twister to become generally accepted.")...

Textuality: Textuality is a concept in linguistics and literary theory that refers to the attributes that distinguish the text (a technical term indicating any communicative content under analysis) as an object of study in those fields. It is associated in both fields with structuralism and post-structuralism....

Literary theory: Literary theory is the theory (or the philosophy) of the interpretation of literature and literary criticism. Its history begins with classical Greek poetics and rhetoric and includes, since the 18th century, aesthetics and hermeneutics. In the 20th century, "theory" has become an umbrella term for...

Text related Images and Photos (experimental)

Text Dress	Dwight Text Art T-Shirt	Page of Text with His Signature	Nebraska License Plate, Chimney, blue text NE-103
Lincoln with Text of Gettysburg Address	Nebraska License Plate, Chimney black text NE-102	Page of Text from La Gazette Describing the Siege of a Town Near Babylon by King of Persia 1632	Le Touquet - Before Text
Standing by the Rags (no text)	Lake Placid 1980 - Skier Text