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Text has several meanings (in alphbetical order:

• In academics, text it is short for textbook.

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

• 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.

[edit] See also

• Boilerplate text
• Hermeneutics
• Manuscript
• Philology
• Plain text
• Semiotics
• Subtext
• Textual criticism

Everthing is text really. Spiritually.

[edit] References

• Mowitt, John. Text: The Genealogy of an Antidisciplinary Object. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1992.ca:Text

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