Everything about Textuality totally explained
Textuality is a concept in
linguistics and
literary theory that refers to the attributes that distinguish the text (a technical term indicating any communicative content under analysis) as an object of study in those fields. It is associated in both fields with
structuralism and
post-structuralism.
The word "text" arose within structuralism as a replacement for the older idea in
literary criticism of the "work," which is always complete and deliberately authored. A text must necessarily be thought of as incomplete, indeed as missing something crucial that provides the mechanics of understanding. The text is always partially hidden; one word for the hidden part in literary theory is the "subtext."
The concept of the text in structuralism requires a relatively simple relationship between language and writing.
Jacques Derrida, a leading post-structuralist, questions this relationship, aiming his critique primarily at
Ferdinand de Saussure, who, he claims, doesn't recognize in the relationship between speech and writing "more than a
narrow and
derivative function." For Derrida, this approach requires putting too much emphasis on speech:
Saussure confronts the system of the spoken language with the system of phonetic (and even alphabetic) writing as though with the telos of writing. This teleology leads to the interpretation of all eruptions of the nonphonetic within writing as transitory crisis and accident of passage, and it's right to consider this teleology to be a Western ethnocentrism, a premathematical primitivism, and a preformalist intuitionism. |
Textuality in the Mediums
Textuality can be seen, heard, read, and interacted with.
Each of the three forms of
Medium:
print,
electronic, and
oral, have a different form of
Textuality that reflect the way the sensory modalities are stimulated.
- An example of Textuality in the oral medium is the sound itself.
- An example of Textuality in the electronic medium is the interactivity of a website, or visual of a specific television show.
- An example of Textuality in the print medium is the physicality of a book.
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