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Abstract

In this article, we present an overview on the concept of text, considering its scientific status; we intend to emphasize new tendencies, which begin to gain relevance in Text Linguistics studies. We defend that the sociocognitivist approach – the main one guiding text studies on the present day – requires theoretical principals which only now have being deeply debated. We point the urge to consider textual materiality as not only verbal, which demands a multimodal look under textual-discursive strategies. We discuss also the relevance of considering, in investigation, interactional situations different from the commonly ones; this may bring new reflection on the formal limits of a text.