textual

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This article explores tensions present in the encounter between British colonial understandings of language and local southern Indian categories of linguistic analysis as they appear within Telugu textual sources.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or conforming to a text.

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  • You distribute it through the three major avenues of content consumption; textual, audio, and video.
  • The new media literacies build upon existing print literacy practices, making possible new literacy practices where, according to the New London Group, "the textual is also related to the visual, the audio, the spatial, the behavioral, and so on."
  • I am not aware of a textual issue with any passage that would call the crucifixion of Jesus into question. —  4Simpsons Blog - Eternity Matters
  • Her lecture, she says, will explore the "spiritual and reflexive dimensions of personal and collective memory to show how Chile's indigenous Mapuche integrate narrative, textual, and embodied modes of remembering to create their own history of changing interethnic politics over time." —  Artvoice - Buffalo's #1 Newsweekly
  • It's hard to comprehend Rorschach without understanding his meta-textual origin. —  Bright Lights After Dark
 

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  1. from Middle English textuel, from Old French (and F.) textuel = Spanish Portuguese textual = Italian testuale, from Latin as it *textualis, from textus, text: see text.
 

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/ˈtɛkstʃjuəl/
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