Points for discussion and further research

1. Consider whether the following are texts:
   • Official forms.
   • Advertisings on hoardings.
   • Dictionary definitions.
   • Small advertisements in newspapers.
   • Train tickets.
   • Instruction manuals.
   • Poems.
   • Notes on filing cards.
   • Subtitles on television.
   • Web pages.
   • This Web document.
   • The Web.
   • A file on a diskette.
   • A recording on a cassette of a tape read aloud.
   • Computer programmes.
   • Lectures.
   • Conversations.
2. Look through the studies listed in the bibliography which appear relevant to you, collect notions related to `text', and compare their definitions.
3. What is `text linguistics', who were the `text linguistics', and what are their main publications? (Check the bibliography for a start ...)