Lecture et écriture du texte numérique

(p. 28) «Par grammatisation, on doit entendre le processus qui conduit à décrire et à outiller une langue sur la base des deux technologies qui sont encore aujourd’hui les piliers de notre savoir métalinguistique: la grammaire et le dictionnaire.» Sylvain Auroux, «Introduction. Le processus de grammatisation et ses enjeux», dans son Histoire des idées linguistiques, Tome 2, Liège, Mardaga, 1992, pp. 11-64

In Theories of the Text (Greetham 1999), D. C. Greetham begins by observing that the word “text” derives from the Latin texere, which means “to weave, join together, plait, braid” and therefore “to construct, fabricate, build, or compose.” “Text,” he goes on to say, “is thus both literal and concrete on the one hand – the physical woven text – and figurative and conceptual on the other: a work of art and both the technical and imaginative procedures whereby this work is brought forth.” (26) Text understood in this way covers a range of phenomena, from the most concrete and material aspects of expression to the most abstract and ideal aspects of content and meaning.