Everything about Context Language Use totally explained
Context is a notion used in the language sciences (
linguistics,
sociolinguistics,
discourse analysis,
pragmatics,
semiotics, etc.) in two different ways, namely as
- verbal context
- social context
Verbal context refers to surrounding text or talk of an expression (word, sentence, conversational turn, speech act, etc.). The idea is that verbal context influences the way we understand the expression. Hence the norm not to cite people 'out of context'. Since much contemporary linguistics takes texts, discourses or conversations as its object of analysis, the modern study of 'verbal context' takes place in terms of the analysis of discourse structures and their mutual relationships, for instance the
coherence relation between sentences.
Traditionally, in
sociolinguistics,
social contexts were defined in terms of objective social 'variables', such as those of class, gender or race. More recently, social contexts tend to be defined in terms of the
social identity being construed and displayed in text and talk by language users.
In his new multidisciplinary theory of context,
Teun A. van Dijk rejects objectivist concepts of social context and shows that relevant properties of social situations can only influence language use as subjective
definitions of the situation by the participants, as represented and ongoingly updated in specific
mental models of language users:
context models.
The influence of context parameters on language use or discourse is usually studied in terms of
language variation,
style or
register (see
Stylistics). The basic assumption here's that language users adapt the properties of their language use (such as intonation, lexical choice, syntax, and other aspects of
formulation) to the current communicative situation. In this sense, language use or discourse may be called more or less 'appropriate' in a given context. It is the language or derigitave terms surrounding set paragraph, novel or article.
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