The aim of the present work is to delineate systematically the current situation of the research in the field of text analysis, distinguishing the nature of the research and the focus of the analysis; at the same time I would like to present a new proposal of an integral model of text linguistics. On the one hand it is an ‘integrating’ model, on the other a homogeneous one, not only in relation to the research object, but also with regard to the theoretical bases and the applied methodology.