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Term Definition
Text

A piece of spoken or written language.

Three-part list

A structure containing three elements, which gives the impression of being a complete list — Beginning, middle and end; Liberty, egality, fraternity; Life, death and taxes.

Transcript

A written document representing an incident of spoken language.

Transitivity

The study of how processes are represented in language.