“When did \”text\” come to be defined as something other than words? What could it be?”
“A short answer to this question makes your OED search useless, however, I don’t have access to OED. What about any other public OED service?” “I am discussing \”texts\” using definitions (from dictionary.)” “com) like this: text: any theme or topic; subject. com” “is anything considered to be a subject for analysis by or as if by methods of literary criticism.” “In the context of cultural anthropology I’m having a discussion with my students about how the definition of a text has expanded over the years to include not only texts comprising words but also visuals (e.g. in the literature of science and geography) within the context of literary anthropology.” “, images in advertisements).” “I’ve come across the latter use of text in certain educational books: \”Like written texts, visual texts have been carefully constructed by their composers to shape meaning, and to affect and influence the viewer.” “This resource covers how to write rhetorical analysis essay of primarily visual texts with a focus on demonstrating the author’s understanding of the rhetorical situation and design principles.” “An ngram search for \”visual texts\” doesn’t have many results before the 1960s, and some of the results reference visual texts to highlight the non standard usage.” “When did the concept of visual text become a subject of analysis in its own right?” “In ‘Michael Kant (e.g. ‘Mel Kant’) \” (e.g. ‘Mele Kant’) \”. (E.g.” “, the MacIntosh logo of an apple (in digital format) (see http://creativebits.org/interview/Interview_Rob_janoff_designer-apple_logo).., the MacIntosh logo of Apple; see http://creativebits.org/interview/interview_Rob_janoff_designer_apple_logo)., the MacIntosh logo of an apple.”
“In fields such as the history of art, literary theory and so on, the word ‘text’ is commonly used to describe other than words.” “According to Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org/)” “In literary theory, a text is the object that can be read, whether this object is a work of literature, a street sign, or an arrangement of buildings on a city block, or styles of clothing.” “What is a coherent set of signals that transmits a certain kind of informative message.” “This set of symbols is considered in terms of the informative message’s content, rather than in terms of its physical form or the medium in which it is represented.” “From what I can see, I suspect it has been commonly used this way since the 1960s. I mean, they have yet to break ground on the internet.” “Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/).” “From the 1960s and 1970s onwards, language, symbols, text, and meaning came to be seen as the theoretical foundation for the humanities through the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ferdinand de Saussure, George Herbert Mead, Noam Chomsky, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and others thinkers in linguistic and analytic philosophy, structural linguistics, hermeneutics, semiology, linguistically oriented psychoanalysis (Jacques La”
“Is it not only common to refer to any object of interpretation as a text at the collegiate level, it is written into the very course catalog descriptions.” “In one of the aesthetics courses I took in grad school, the main text for that course was Performance Studies: The Interpretation of Aesthetic Texts.” “This usage dates from at least Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Truth and Method (1975) and is inferred by Roland Barthes in \”The Photographic Message,\” no. 742.” “1, Communications (Paris, 1961)” “While Barthes wrote that \”(t)he photographic image (…) is a message without a code,\” he did speak of reading the photographic image as parallel with the reading of its caption and title.” “So, if I were you, I would likely argue that the 1961 article represents the archetypal use of \”text\” to refer to non-written objects of interpretation.”
