Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Functions (hierarchy name)
4. functions (activities)
5. [functions by general context]

Narrower term/s

• writing (processes) [NP][+]
  • skywriting
  • calligraphy (process) [+]
    • striking (technique)
  • lettering (processes) [+]
    • dimensioning [+]
      • linear dimensioning
      • elevation dimensioning
  • numbering [+]
    • pagination
    • foliation (numbering)
  • micrography (writing technique)
  • typewriting
  • handwriting
  • boustrophedon (process)
  • acrophony
  • digital writing
  • chrysography
  • automatic writing
  • penmanship
  • inscribing [+]
    • signing (writing) [+]
      • initialing
    • dating (inscription)
  • transcribing (process)
• language (general communication) [NP]
• speech (communication function) [NP]
• gesture [NP][+]
  • mudra [+]
    • abhayamudrā
    • vitarka mudra
    • anjali mudra
    • dharmacakra mudra
    • bhumisparsa mudra
    • bodhyangi mudra
    • tarjani mudra
    • vajrahunkara mudra
    • varada mudra
    • vyakhyana mudra
    • gajahasta
    • capēṭamudrā
  • Neapolitan gesture
• lobbying
• protesting
• reporting
• negotiation
• publicizing
• advocacy
• communication (function)
• petitioning
• voting
• informing
• influencing
• information forms (objects) [NP][+]
  • document genres [+]
    • [documents by form] [+]
      • comics (documents) [+]
      • catalogs (documents) [+]
      • emblem books
      • picture books [+]
      • coloring books
      • viewbooks
      • calendars (documents) [+]
      • journals (accounts) [+]
      • lists (document genres) [+]
      • notes (documents) [+]
      • programs (documents) [+]
      • questionnaires
      • schedules (time plans) [+]
      • databases [+]
      • inscriptions [+]
      • forms (documents) [+]
      • partial documents [+]
      • graphic document genres [+]
      • literature (documents) [+]
      • writings (documents)
      • type specimens (documents)
      • alphabet books
      • [documents for oral or performed works] [+]
      • versions of documents [+]
      • frakturs (documents)
      • calculations
      • taxonomies (documents)
      • telestichs
      • mesostichs
      • acrostics
      • board books
      • texts (documents) [+]
      • Web pages (documents) [+]
      • fascicles (documents by form)
      • volumes (documents by form)
      • archaeographies
      • electronic documents [+]
      • templates (documents)
      • fashion plates
      • handbooks
      • polyglots
      • tombstones (documents)
      • pocket books (books)
      • Sammelbände (composite volumes) [+]
      • files (digital files) [+]
      • scribbles (documents)
      • tags (documents)
      • gallery texts
      • illustrated works (documents)
      • unbound volumes
      • alphabet charts [NP]
      • herbaria (documents)
    • [documents by function] [+]
      • dedications (documents)
      • eulogies (documents)
      • instructional materials [+]
      • collectors' guides
      • obituaries
      • reviews (documents)
      • records (documents) [+]
      • acknowledgments
      • appointment books
      • computuses [+]
      • certificates [+]
      • correspondence [+]
      • credentials [+]
      • examinations (documents)
      • invitations
      • petitions
      • proposals [+]
      • prospectuses [+]
      • reports [+]
      • sketchbooks [+]
      • testimonies [+]
      • laws (documents)
      • permissions [+]
      • [identifying markings and symbols] [+]
      • reference sources [+]
      • declaratory documents [+]
      • festival books [+]
      • papers (documents)
      • indulgences (documents)
      • gift books
      • keepsakes (books)
      • [word and number puzzles and games] [+]
      • religious texts [+]
      • public opinion polls
      • surveys (documents) [+]
      • documentaries (documents) [+]
      • cryptograms [+]
      • research (documents)
      • pledges
      • copies (documents)
      • exempla
      • scorebooks
      • competition entries [+]
      • field recordings
      • floras (documents)
      • citations (bibliographic references)
      • collations
      • cross-references
      • primary sources
      • references
      • architectural documents [+]
      • archival copies
      • mail (documents) [+]
      • plaques d'insculpation
      • dope sheets
      • curse tablets
      • descriptions (documents)
      • drawing books
      • writing books
      • music books
      • builder's plates
      • [temporary alphabetical list: declaratory documents] [+]
      • memorial books
      • secondary sources
      • preprints [+]
      • postprints [+]
    • [documents by conditions of production] [+]
      • anthologies
      • compendiums
      • Festschriften
      • manuscripts (documents) [+]
      • typescripts
      • articles [+]
      • collected works
      • publications (documents) [+]
      • chapbooks [+]
      • livres de peintres
      • [books by conditions of production] [NP] [+]
      • trade books
      • grey literature
      • funeral books
      • pulps (documents)
      • corpora (writings)
      • miscellanies
      • apocrypha
      • artists' periodicals
    • [temporary alphabetical list: document genres] [+]
      • animal licenses
      • attendance cards
      • attendance certificates
      • autograph cards
      • awards
      • business permits
      • call slips
      • achievement certificates
      • achievement symbols
      • address labels
      • book slipcases
      • confirmation certificates
      • county directories
      • carcass tags
      • church certificates
      • document covers
      • document files
      • documentary cards
      • documentary objects
      • date plaques
      • digital documents
      • displays
      • escort cards
      • family registers
      • fee schedules
      • financial applications
      • fire marks
      • first communion certificates
      • flight logs
      • identification labels
      • identification tags
      • inspirational cards
      • insurance cards
      • interment permits
      • inventory tags
      • membership applications
      • membership certificates
      • membership directories
      • merchandise tags
      • license applications
      • magazine clippings
      • map covers
      • other documents
      • personal symbols
      • newspaper supplements
      • occupational licenses
      • registration applications
      • requests
      • pledge cards
      • pledge sheets
      • printing proofs
      • qsl cards
      • transportation licenses
      • scorecards
      • scoring documents
      • shipping labels
      • shipping tags
      • sporting licenses
      • spreadsheets
      • student records
  • information form components [NP] [+]
    • gathered matter components [+]
      • spines (book components)
      • leaves (gathered matter) [+]
      • pages (components) [+]
      • [bindings and binding components] [+]
      • gatherings (gathered matter components)
      • text blocks
      • covers (gathered matter components) [+]
      • bifolia
      • thumb indexes
      • [coverings for gathered matter] [+]
      • interleaves [+]
      • registers (book components) [+]
      • sewing stations
      • backs (gathered matter components)
      • edges (gathered matter components) [+]
      • errata slips
      • kerfs
      • fore-edge paintings (components) [+]
      • press sheets
      • divider cards
      • file dividers [+]
      • book sample content
      • book full content
    • layout features [+]
      • initials (layout features) [+]
      • margins [+]
      • titles (partial documents) [NP] [+]
      • typographic techniques [NP] [+]
      • rubrics
      • rules (layout features)
      • grids (layout features)
      • columns (layout features)
      • leading (spacing)
      • headings [+]
      • [images and ornament for layout features] [+]
      • catchwords
      • signatures (binders' notations)
      • double spreads
      • runarounds
      • line spacing
      • guide letters
      • text (layout feature) [+]
      • words (layout features)
      • caption titles
      • cut-in notes
      • lettering (layout features)
      • Oxford corners [NP]
      • chapters (layout features)
      • long-line format
      • panels (comics)
      • paragraphs
      • entries (layout or data features)
    • [script and type forms] [+]
      • script and type signs [+]
      • braille
      • typefaces (type forms) [+]
      • scripts (writing) [+]
      • tablature
      • [script and type forms by cultural or intellectual valuation] [+]
      • letterform components [+]
    • [components for controlled vocabularies] [+]
      • facets (controlled vocabulary)
      • guide terms
      • terms (controlled vocabulary) [+]
      • hierarchy roots
      • ancestors (controlled vocabulary) [+]
      • descendants (controlled vocabulary)
      • related terms (controlled vocabulary)
      • broader terms
      • narrower terms
      • siblings (controlled vocabulary)
      • qualifiers (thesaurus indicators)
  • information artifacts [+]
    • [information artifacts by physical form] [+]
      • broadsides (notices) [NP]
      • cards (information artifacts) [+]
      • clippings (information artifacts) [+]
      • audiovisual materials
      • filmstrips
      • books [+]
      • globes (cartographic spheres) [+]
      • printouts
      • reprographic copies [+]
      • microforms [+]
      • scrolls (information artifacts) [+]
      • tablets (information artifacts) [+]
      • papyri (manuscripts) [NP] [+]
      • tear sheets
      • motion pictures (visual works) [NP] [+]
      • ostraka
      • sheets (paper artifacts)
      • buttons (information artifacts)
      • stickers [+]
      • leaflets (printed works)
      • folders (printed matter)
      • machine-readable artifacts [+]
      • pamphlets
      • visual resources
      • visual aids (education tools) [+]
      • khipus
      • tocapu
      • soft copies
      • booklets
      • rune stones [NP]
      • gathered matter (information artifacts) [+]
      • kudurrus
      • notepads [+]
      • recordings [+]
      • winter counts
      • jiǎndú
    • [information artifacts by function] [+]
      • packaging [+]
      • printed matter production stages [+]
      • presentation copies [+]
      • identifying artifacts [+]
      • correspondence artifacts [+]
      • [declaratory and advertising artifacts] [+]
      • lukasas
      • ration books
      • àrokò
      • printed ephemera
      • patient package inserts
      • readings (artifacts)
      • talking sticks
  • media (information storage)
• advertising functions[+]
  • print advertising
  • broadcast advertising
  • outdoor advertising
  • transit advertising
• advising[+]
  • counseling [+]
    • vocational guidance
  • consulting
• interviewing
• mediation
• demonstration (communication function)
• languages (established systems of communication) [NP][+]
  • living languages
  • extinct languages
  • ancient languages
  • historic languages
  • constructed languages
  • creoles (language, general)
  • dialects
  • cants (language, general)
  • endangered languages
  • dead languages
  • pidgins (language, general)
  • sign languages
  • lingua francas
  • mixed languages
  • jargon
  • language families
  • spoken languages
  • written languages
  • computer languages [+]
    • SQL
  • indexing languages
  • vernacular languages
• signaling[+]
  • semaphore (activity)

Anotations

Scope note:

Functions or performances that are related to communication or the communications industry.