Article outline

• 2.1Introduction
• 2.2Basic concepts: Text, scribal text and document
• 2.3Categorizing texts: Genre, text type and textual dimensions in earlier literature
  • 2.3.1Genre, text type, and register
  • 2.3.2From genres and text types to text categories
• 2.4Text categories and topological space
• 2.5Contexts of text production and use
• 2.6Changing topologies through chains of context
• 2.7Conclusions