textuality

Noun

Meaning

textuality (countable and uncountable, plural textualities)

(literature, linguistics) The attributes that distinguish a text as an object of study.

Examples

This originary complexity must not be understood as an original positing, but more like a default of origin, which Derrida refers to as iterability, inscription, or textuality. Source: Internet

Stiegler understands Derrida's thinking of textuality and inscription in terms of a thinking of originary technicity, and in this context speaks of "the originary default of origin that arche-writing constitutes" (p. 239). Source: Internet

Principally concerned with the production, circulation, and reception of texts and their material forms, book history seeks to connect forms of textuality with their material aspects. Source: Internet

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