3. Textual Categories The textual category is a property characterizing every text, in other words,
it is a typological feature of a text. Textual categories appear and function only in
the text as a language unit of the highest rank. It is important to remember that the
text is never modeled by one textual category but always by a totality of
categories. It is sometimes regarded as a total of categories.
Today the list of textual categories is open: linguists name different textual
categories because they approach the text from different angles. Most scholars
differentiate between
