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Encyclopedia > Texts

In language, text is something that contains words to express something. The term usually has broader meaning.


In linguistics text enters at least two types of contrasts. One is that between system and text, system being understood as the ability of the speakers to communicate using verbal signs, and text being understood as the product of this ability. The other is between text, understood as written text, and speech, spoken text.


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 term came into use with the rise of cultural studies, and the corresponding broadening of what it was one could talk about when talking about literature.


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


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TX Text Control :: word processing components (242 words)
TX Text Control is a family of word processing components that offers developers all the features expected in a high end word processing package in reusable component form:
TX Text Control web-based products have been developed for enterprise-wide deployment in ubiquitous.NET environments and are licensed in a manner that dramatically decreases licensing costs.
TX Text Control server products have been designed from the ground up to ensure the effortless creation of high-performance, server-based applications for deployment in market-leading enterprises.
Text - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (263 words)
In linguistics a text is a communicative act, fulfilling the seven constitutive and the three regulative principles of textuality.
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.
In academics, text is often used as a short form for textbook.
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