textuality
(tɛkstjuːˈælɪtɪ)
[f. as prec. + -ity.]
1. = textualism 1.
| 1836 J. Martin's Discourses Memoir 34 Textuality, he often said, appeared to him to be one of the chief excellences of a sermon. 1888 M. W. Stryker in Interior (Chicago) 5 Apr., Deliverance, for those who have all their lifetimes been subject to pithiness and apothegm would come by the broadest textuality. |
2. (See quot. 1970.)
| 1970 Babel XVI. 76/1 By textuality, we mean the result of the transformation of the common language of a given type of civilization into the language of a work of literature belonging to that type of civilization. 1976 G. C. Spivak in J. Derrida Of Grammatology p. lxv, Exploiting a false etymological kinship between semantics and semen, Derrida offers this version of textuality: A sowing that does not produce plants, but is simply infinitely repeated. 1979 N. & Q. June 285/2 Glyph is a ‘new serial publication’ concerned with ‘the problems of representation and textuality’. |