- Linguistic context: Also know as co-text. The co-text of a word is the set of other words used in the same phrase or sentence. The surrounding co-text has a stronger effect on what we think the word probably means.
- Physical context: "If we see the word bank on the wall of a building in a city, the physical location will influence our interpretation.
Communication clearly depends on not only recognizin the meaning of words in a utterance, but recognizin what speakers mean by their utterances. The study of what speakers mean, or "speaking meaning", is called pragmatics: The study of "invisible" meaning.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
CONTEXT
There are different kinds of context:
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