tekstuaalinen

Tekstuaalinen is a Finnish adjective meaning "textual" or "relating to a text." It is used to describe content, analysis, or phenomena that are text-based rather than audiovisual, and it is common in fields such as linguistics, literary studies, media studies, and information science.

In scholarly use, tekstuaalinen characterizes aspects of texts as cultural artifacts or objects of study. Phrases such as tekstuaalinen analyysi (textual analysis) and tekstuaalisuus (textuality) reflect its role in distinguishing textual content from other modalities and from purely visual or auditory material.

The term is formed from teksti (text) with the adjectival suffix -alinen, often via the intermediate form tekstuaali. It denotes a relation to text and is frequently employed in discussions of textual production, interpretation, and textuality across disciplines.

Related terms include tekstuaalisuus (textuality) and teksti (text).