nontextual
- adjective
- /nɒnˈtɛkstʃuəl/
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no textual
- Teacher-librarians can also develop students' nontextual information literacies (e.g., visual literacy) through the critical exploration of blogs employing multimedia forms of communication.
Examples
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Caught up in what drawing—the purely visual and nontextual—had to offer, Leonardo set aside the difference between the mythological mother and the mother of Christ.
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If within literary criticism the image has often served as a figure for the nontextual beyond language, within social history the picture—more precisely, the work of art—frequently has assumed the role of the text that exceeds the deterministic force of history.
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Although the Internet offers the opportunity for nontextual multimedia communication, reading and writing are still the cornerstones of online literacy.
Academic text (2006) -
The former criterion is usually understood as based in textual structure, the latter as being nontextual.
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Specifically, the visual has served, over and again, as the figure within textual analysis for the nontextual, within discourse for the nondiscursive.
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Morse found that "the nontextual nature of sheet maps makes them difficult to fit into relationship taxonomies developed primarily for textual resources." 25
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Although the knowledge one derives from art is perhaps neither cognitive nor textual (Connerton 1989:102-3), it may only be through the art object itself that we are able to perceive this noncognitive, nontextual knowledge.
Academic text (1995) -
I will also discuss the rather questionable distinction between textual and nontextual characteristics of fiction—a distinction only possible for the characteristics of fiction, since the signals of fiction are, by definition, textual.
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The video presentation was filled with nontextual elements like animations and illustrations.
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Many modern websites use nontextual content to engage users with visuals and sounds.
Synonyms
Having no written words
Antonyms
Compounds
Pictures like photographs, drawings, or charts in a book that are not written words
How Textual
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Morphology
Etymology
The word nontextual comes from the parts non- meaning 'not' and text meaning 'written words', the same text you see in textbook or in a text message. So, nontextual means 'not made of written words', like images, audio, or video.