textuelles

Textuelles is a term used in literary theory and linguistics to refer to the textual dimension of discourse—the language, structure, and internal organization that compose a text independent of external references. The word is derived from the French textuel, meaning pertaining to text, and it appears in francophone scholarship as well as in translations that discuss textuality.

In practice, textuelles encompasses features such as lexicon, syntax, narrative voice, rhythm, coherence, and cohesion. It focuses on how a text is constructed from within, rather than on its historical context, authorial intention, or social factors. This emphasis distinguishes textuelles from contextual analyses, which foreground external influences and circumstances surrounding a text.

Applications of the concept appear in close reading, textual criticism, and stylistic analysis, where scholars examine how choices in diction, syntax, and form shape meaning and aesthetic effect. In digital humanities, textuelles can guide annotation and computational analysis of textual features across corpora, enabling systematic comparisons of style, genre conventions, or authorial fingerprints.

Related notions include textuality, discourse analysis, and semiotics, which broaden the study to how texts generate meaning within systems of signs and communication. While the term is more common in francophone contexts, its emphasis on internal textual organization aligns with widely used concepts in modern literary and linguistic analysis.