The question is "Is there text in this class? In school? In life?" When I first read this my immediate thought was "what is the definition of text?" I feel that it's meaning now is very different to what it has been in the past. So I looked it up. The online Princeton website defined text as "the words of something written." However, another defintion from the Wikipedia defined text as "A text is a coherent set of symbols that transmits some kind of informative message."
I think both of these defintions are perfect examples of past and present text. Back when electronic devices didn't play such a dominant role in the world, text was simply text. Although it probably did include symbols because that's where the english language orginated from, you really only considered text being words from a book. In today's world, the sky is the limit with what text means. Text is everything we do because usually, everything we do is saying something and therefore text.
So to answer the question(s): yes, text is in the clasroom, the school, in life and throughout the world. Text is in what we wear to class, how Texas Tech promotes itself with graphic imagines, the well known people they hire and growing student popuation and in billboards, advertisements and stores throughout the world. Text is everywhere and in everything.
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I thought it was interesting that everything we do is text! I had never looked at it that way and I really liked it. It will be interesting to see how text continues to evolve with the next generation. Texting has not even been around very long and it has revolutionized the English language as well as various social interactions. Should be interesting!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your opinion on text. I completely agree in the fact that text is everywhere and with everything we do we use text. Text is used especially in the classroom and I feel that in a classroom our main focus is text.
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