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textuality

textuality

1 8.0
The features that make something a written or spoken text
  • noun
  • /tɛkˈstjuːəlɪti/
  • Specialized
: textualidad
  • The textuality of the poem reveals deeper meanings and themes that enrich its interpretation.
  • orality and textuality
  • texts and textuality
  • textuality and discourse

Examples

  • Far from disappearing into textuality, this author struggles for personal identity and personal survival.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Indeed, early premodern Japan was penetrated by textuality.

    Academic text (2015)
  • In other words, community has a material reality, a lived textuality, as a production.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The figure in the text is the textuality of the figure.

    Academic text (2000)
  • I could have my Jewish textuality and a sense of being right with the world, too.

    Academic text (2010)
  • First, he consistently alludes to the novel's textuality.

    Academic text (1997)
  • The respect and prominence given to documentation and inscription within the scientific method emphasize textuality as a means to truth.

    Academic text (2006)
  • "I agree that the field is a privileged area of discourse, but a critique based on textuality misses the point."

    Academic text (1993)
  • I want to decenter questions of writing and textuality and shift to another disciplinary activity: that of reviewing ethnographies.

    Academic text (1993)
  • The Voice in the Closet thus highlights the paradoxical interplay of virtual speech and textuality, experience and verbalization in historical fiction.

    Academic text (1994)

How Textual

textuality
  • Specialized
1 8.0
literariness
  • Literature
1 8.4
imagery
  • Literature
37 4.6

Surface Forms

textuality singular
textualities plural

Morphology

textuality = textual (transparent) = text + ual + ity

Formed by adding the productive nominalizing suffix '-ity' to the adjective 'textual', yielding the expected meaning 'the quality/state of being textual'.

Etymology

The word textuality comes from text, which goes back to the Latin word texere meaning 'to weave', the same root as texture and textile. So, textuality is about the 'woven' quality of a text, how its words and parts join together to create meaning.