Didactics of Translation: Text in Context

Texture

Texture refers to “the various devices (semantic, syntactic and textual) which together lend the text its basic quality of hanging together, of being both cohesive and coherent” (Baker 1992: 188). Alongside text structure, it is one of the most important elements in the identification of a text and a non-text (see section 3. 2. 2. 3. 5 above). For its realization, texture depends on the text structure and other aspects of context such as text type, genre and discourse; in other words, texture
realizes given structure formats… and is more or less causally determined by higher-level contextual factors (text type and so on). (Hatim and Mason 1997: 7)
Texture is, thus, regarded as motivated choice on the part of text users in general; that is to say,
text producers make their choices in such a way as best to serve their own communicative ends and within an institutional setting which exerts its own influence on linguistic expression. In this way, text type focus is a powerful motivating factor. A counter argument demands different textual procedures from those appropriate for conceptual exposition. (Hatim & Mason 1990: 193)

3.