文档介绍：2. What is context?
Context is an important concept in discourse analysis. Context refers to the situation giving rise to the discourse, and within which the discourse is embedded.
Linguistic context--- the language the surrounds or panies the piece of discourse under analysis.
Non-linguistic or experiential contexts within which the discourse: it includes: the type municative event; the topic; the purpose of the event; the setting, including location, time of the day, size of the room, arrangement of furniture); the participants and the relationships between them; the background knowledge and the assumptions underlying municative event.
Context lays an important role in interpretation and construcing discourse: reference,presupposition,impliicature and inferernce
.When did you stop beating your wife?
Preposition: you have a wife and you often beat her./
How to respond:
I never had a wife.
But I’m not in the habit of beating anybody
I never stopped because I never started.
Tourist: Is there a toilet around here?
Attendent:You want to go?
Tourist:(somehow astonished) Sure I do.
Attendent:Go down the steps.
Implicature is used by Grice to account for what a speaker can imply,suggest, or mean ,as distinct from what the speaker literally says.:
Conventional implicature ---conventional meaning of the words and conversational implicature derived from a general princip