The term "text" has multiple meanings depending on its context of use:
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.
Dante's vs. Niven and Pournelle's Inferno - Essay on the pastiche by two twentieth-century hard science-fiction writers of the sixteenth-century fantastic classic. Includes comparisons between the original and modernized versions of each Circle of Hell.
Meta Description: [ Holding up a great literary work of the Italian Renaissance to a pale, modern imitation, though I must say Niven and Pournelle are a hell of a lot more readable than Dante. ]
Baby, You Amaze Me [[A Jemi Story]] Ep. 79 RE-UPLOADED.