textuais

Textuais is the plural form of the Portuguese adjective textual, used to describe elements or aspects related to a text. In academic and professional language, the expression "aspectos textuais" refers to the features that pertain to the text itself—its structure, organization, language, coherence, and readability. The term is employed across linguistics, literary studies, discourse analysis, and related fields to distinguish text-centered concerns from visual, auditory, or contextual ones.

Etymology and usage notes: textual derives from texto (text) with the suffix -ual, following standard Portuguese morphology. The form textuais agrees with masculine or mixed-gender plural nouns, and the feminine plural is also textuais. The term is typically used as an adjective, though it can appear in noun phrases such as "aspectos textuais" or "unidades textuais" to refer collectively to text-related features.

Applications: In analysis, "textuais" covers components such as structure (coherence, cohesion, organization), diction and style, genre conventions, and rhetorical strategies. It is often contrasted with non-textual dimensions like visual design or sonic elements in multimodal works. In digital media, the concept can extend to markup, metadata, and formatting that influence how a text is produced, distributed, and read.

See also: textualidade, intertextualidade, paratexto. The term is widely used in Brazilian Portuguese and Portuguese-language scholarship to discuss the properties, functions, and interpretation of texts.