The reader as Trüffelschwein. A textlinguistic approach to aesthetic texts Abstract Beside texts of everyday speech literary texts are prominent communicative practices of societies communicative household. They can be subjects/topics of a (text)linguistic approach. In this article it will be shown, that literary texts can be analysed by means of a multidimensional model of analysis from a (text)linguistic perspective, whereupon the linguistic structure is the first step of analysis, which finally refers to the functional and conceptual meaning of texts.