文档介绍：The Role of context in interpretation
Context is an important concept in language understanding analysis We often use this term to mean ‘environment’, circumstances or context in which language is used. Narrowly it refers to co-text. “The meaning of any single word is to a very high degree dependent on context” Language only makes sense when interpreted within its context.
.Any analytic approach in linguistics which involves contextual considerations necessarily belongs to that kind of language study ‘Pragmatics’.
In a narrow sense,-------Linguistic context--- the language that surrounds or panies the piece of discourse under analysis--- the it refers to the words, clauses,sentences, in which a word appears.
In a broad sense-----Non-linguistic –extralinguistic 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.(culture, people, time, place)
(Huzhaunlin)Three kinds of context: linguistic context(co-text);situational context (语篇产生是的周围情况,事件的性质,参与者的关系,时间,地点,方式等。;cultural context(说话人或作者所在的语言社团的历史、文化和风俗人情。
. we ca use different linguistic form to address the same person: Mr.