Texts consists of anything uttered by a native speaker which is not in response to some such question as 'How do you say 'so-and-so'?' There are six principal kinds of texts: (1) greetings, (2) conversation, (3) exposition and personal narrative, (4) traditional stories, (5) songs and poetic forms, and (6) proverbs.
- Nida (1949), a pag.186