John Benjamins Publishing Company
Contexts in interaction
Abstract
The concept of context has undergone some fundamental rethinking in the scientific community, where it is no longer seen as an analytic prime. Rather than being solely looked upon as an external constraint on linguistic performance, context has been analyzed as a product of language use, as socio-cognitively construed, interactionally negotiated and constructed, and as imported and invoked. This is because communication is seen as both context-dependent and context-creating. The goal of this article is to investigate context in a research framework based on methodological compositionality, concentrating on the questions whether context is conceived of as (1) static or dynamic, (2) given or re-constructed, (3) speaker-centered, hearer-centered or collective-centered, and (4) subjective or individual, or social or objective.
Abstract
The concept of context has undergone some fundamental rethinking in the scientific community, where it is no longer seen as an analytic prime. Rather than being solely looked upon as an external constraint on linguistic performance, context has been analyzed as a product of language use, as socio-cognitively construed, interactionally negotiated and constructed, and as imported and invoked. This is because communication is seen as both context-dependent and context-creating. The goal of this article is to investigate context in a research framework based on methodological compositionality, concentrating on the questions whether context is conceived of as (1) static or dynamic, (2) given or re-constructed, (3) speaker-centered, hearer-centered or collective-centered, and (4) subjective or individual, or social or objective.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Introduction 1
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Part I. Linguistic perspectives on context
- What is a context? 9
- Context in neurolinguistics 33
- Theorising context 55
- Context 81
- Contexts in interaction 105
- What’s non-linguistic visual context? 129
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Part II.Case studies on context
- Emergent contexts 153
- The role of context in interpreting implicit meaning aspects 175
- Contextually enriched argument linking 199
- Modelling context within a constraint-based account of quantifier usage 229
- Subject and name index 251
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Introduction 1
-
Part I. Linguistic perspectives on context
- What is a context? 9
- Context in neurolinguistics 33
- Theorising context 55
- Context 81
- Contexts in interaction 105
- What’s non-linguistic visual context? 129
-
Part II.Case studies on context
- Emergent contexts 153
- The role of context in interpreting implicit meaning aspects 175
- Contextually enriched argument linking 199
- Modelling context within a constraint-based account of quantifier usage 229
- Subject and name index 251
