In communication, a text is a product of:

In communication, a text is a product of social interaction.

A text takes shape as people make and share meanings together within a social relationship.

Non-responsiveness is an absence of exchange and could never generate a text.

Military exercises are drills of force and have nothing to do with how a text is produced.

Neurological research studies the brain and does not account for the social making of a text.

Seeing a text as a product of interaction places meaning-making firmly within social life.