ABSTRACT
Socio-rhetorical criticism uses the phrase ‘inner texture’ to refer to data that linguistic, literary, narratological, rhetorical and aesthetic interpreters gather when they emphasize the relation of signs in a text to one another. This approach yields six kinds of inner texture: (a) repetitive; (b) progressive; (c) opening-middle-closing; (d) narrational; (e) argumentative; and (f) sensory-aesthetic. Analysis and interpretation of these kinds of inner texture are one aspect of a thick description of discourse in a text.
