Agency: any textual unit showing if the enunciator is source or goal of action

Affect: any textual unit highlighting the emotional dimension of texts

Embrayage/debrayage: any textual unit revealing whether the enunciator is involved or not

Stake: aims and interests animating the text

Story: scenes, characters and models of action

Network: logoi and antilogoi activated within the several narrative and argumentative programs

Genre: any reference to the typology of text and intertextual references

Opacity: rhetorical figures and frame metaphorsetc.

Meta-discourse: any expressions of comment and reformulation