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Text is any written material that people can read and understand, ranging from books and articles to signs and messages. It matters because it allows us to communicate ideas, share information, and preserve knowledge across time and distance.
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In literary theory, a text is any object that can be "read", whether this object is a work of literature, a street sign, an arrangement of buildings on a city block, or styles of clothing. It is a set of signs that is available to be reconstructed by a reader (or observer) if sufficient interpretants are available. This set of signs 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.