scholarly journals Taget ud af sammenhæng - Om kontekst i idéhistorie

2018 ◽  
pp. 77-108
Author(s):  
Mikkel Thorup
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Linguistic Context ◽  
Situational Context

The notion and practice of context is highly contested in intellectual history. But few have outlined and discussed its various levels and expressions for use in actual intellectual history research. This article provides a first mapping of the various different ways intellectual historians use contexualised readings dividing it up intofour clusters of contextualizations: individual context, situational context, linguistic context, and finally cultural and social context. The article also discusses various criticisms of and interventions in the context debate arguing that context, whatever it may mean and however we choose to do it, is inseparable from any intellectualhistory practice.

Attitude Datives in Social Context – The Analytic Tools

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youssef A. Haddad
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Cognitive Grammar ◽  
Stage Model ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
Present Material ◽  
Situational Context ◽  
Pragmatic Markers ◽  
Activity Types ◽  
Contextualization Cues

This chapter defines attitude datives as evaluative and relational pragmatic markers that allow the speaker to present material from a specific perspective and to invite the hearer to view the material from the same perspective. It identifies three types of context that are pertinent to the analysis of these datives. These are the sociocultural context (e.g., values, beliefs), the situational context (i.e., identities, activity types), and the co-textual context (e.g., contextualization cues). The chapter draws on Cognitive Grammar and Theory of Stance and puts forth a sociocognitive model called the stancetaking stage model. In this model, when a speaker uses an attitude dative construction, she directs her hearer’s attention to the main content of her message and instructs him to view this content through the attitude dative as a filter. In this sense, the attitude dative functions as a perspectivizer and the main content becomes a perspectivized thought.

Psycholinguistics: Competence and Performance

1976 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 79-90
Author(s):  
Judith Greene
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Linguistic Context ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Verbal Cues ◽  
Linguistic Communication ◽  
Linguistic Structure ◽  
Dinner Party ◽  
Standing Up ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Linguistics

There has been a tendency, natural perhaps in such ‘verbal’ disciplines as philosophy and linguistics, to assume that language and communication are the same thing. But while no one would deny that language is one powerful medium of human communication, is it the only one? Is there any real distinction between communicating one's desire to leave a dinner party by making verbal remarks like, ‘I must go’ or ‘We could only get Jane as a babysitter’, as opposed to fidgeting, standing up and looking longingly towards the door? As Michael Argyle argues, a great deal of information is conveyed by non-verbal cues. To take the argument a step further, are even verbal statements examples of purely linguistic communication ? Whereas the manifest linguistic content of ‘I must go’ is obvious to anyone who speaks English, the meaning of the remark about the babysitter can only be understood by those who know the particular neighbourhood social context in which it was uttered. Does it make sense, then, to try and analyse the linguistic structure and content of an utterance without taking into account the use to which it is being put in a particular extra-linguistic context?

Conversational silence and face in two sociocultural contexts

Pragmatics ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 707-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josefa Contreras Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Situational Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Sociocultural Contexts

This article aims to examine the relation between conversational silence and face and to identify communicative behaviour related to silence in Spanish and German. To this end, I will first briefly explain the concepts of conversation, culture and silence, as well as the concept of face. Second, I will analyse verbal and non-verbal activities of silence in transactional and colloquial conversations in Spanish and German conversation. Perceptions and conceptions of conversational silence rely on the situational context and, especially, on the face of each speech community. Therefore, depending on the social context and the characteristics of face in each culture, silence is considered as forming part of conversation.

scholarly journals The Role of Situational Context and Linguistic Context when Testing EFL Vocabulary Knowledgde in a Language Teacher Education Program: A Preliminary Approach

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Patricia Franco ◽  
Hector Alejandro Galvis
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Vocabulary Knowledge ◽  
Linguistic Context ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Situational Context ◽  
Basic Vocabulary

This research aims to provide a preliminary approach on to what extent linguistic and situational contexts are conducive to successfulvocabulary recognition in discrete-item testing in the context of a language teacher education program in Bogotá. This study resorted to the useof four different types of vocabulary tests administered during a one-semester period to two different classes. The data collected revealed thatstudents had more success in a test of productive vocabulary (L2 to L1 translation) than in other types of tests, namely, productive vocabulary(L2 to L1 translation/multiple choice), L2 to L1 translation provided with linguistic context and cued situational context. The findings of thisresearch suggest that the participating pre-service teachers had not reached the basic vocabulary knowledge of the English Language at thetime of this study. It was also found that vocabulary items devoid of contextual cues are more accurately identified than those embedded withina linguistic context and a cued situational context.

scholarly journals INVESTIGATING THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTEXT IN THE ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF OGUNDIMU’S A SILLY SEASON

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Servais Dieu-DonnéYédia Dadjo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Linguistic Context ◽  
Full Understanding ◽  
Situational Context ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Speech Events ◽  
Descriptive Survey

This paper investigates the importance of context in the analysis and interpretation of Ogundimu’sA Silly Season. It aims to describe, analyse and interpret linguistic context, situational context, and cultural context of the production of speech events in A Silly Season. Basing on a descriptive survey method relevant passages that require the clarification of contexts for their full understanding have been selected. It has been contended that the description of the linguistic context of the highlighted lexical items has helped determine who the speakers and hearers are in terms of the roles they have played either individually or collectively. In the same way, the description of the situational context clarifies the circumstances in which the speech events take root and even helps disambiguate ambiguous sentences. The description of the cultural context of words and expressions used has helped contend that the author values Yoruba culture and tradition.

“He tells us that”

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Brownlees
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Social Context ◽  
English Civil War ◽  
Situational Context

Abstract In this paper, I examine a form of argumentation employed by one of the most prominent parliamentarian news pamphlets of the English Civil War (1642–1649). The pamphlet in question is Mercurius Britanicus. It was founded to counter through its pages the news that was being published in Mercurius Aulicus, the foremost royalist publication. In its animadversion of Aulicus’s news, Britanicus first repeated the royalist text, and then responded to it. In my study, I shall focus on instances where the not wholly faithful reporting of Aulicus’s text leads to (socio)pragmatic meanings. I have taken into consideration both the wider social context in which the pamphlet writers were writing as well as the immediate situational context – the pamphlet as a genre. In my analysis of Britanicus’s animadversion, I examine titles of courtesy and the omission and substitution of words.

scholarly journals A Discourse Analysis of Jakarta Globe in Advertisements

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Endah Mitsalina
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Linguistic Context ◽  
Situational Context ◽  
The Public ◽  
Essential Components

This study analyzes the idea of the discourse of advertising. The emphasis is on consumer advertising, which is coordinated towards the advancement of some item or service to the public. The study, nonetheless, is not intended to debilitate every one of the parts of this specific discourse, or present a response to every one of the issues it postures. Or maybe, it goes for revealing the essential components of the most unavoidable, persuasive and inescapable discourse of the 21st century; the promoting content. This study provides analyses of advertisement, using different contexts. It covers linguistic context, situational context, and cultural context.

FOLKLORUN FUNKSİONAL STRUKTURU KONTEKSTUALİZM MÜSTƏVİSİNDƏ

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (05) ◽  
pp. 29-32
Author(s):  
Sabina Alakbar Mammadova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Functional Structure ◽  
Situational Context ◽  
The Social

Key words: folklore, contextualism, text, the social context, situational context, the cultural context, ethnography, function, functional structure, folk, ownership, representation, creation

THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF HOBBES'S POLITICAL THOUGHT

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES J. HAMILTON
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Social History ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Market Society ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Views

The social context of Hobbes's political thought is ripe for reassessment in light of advances in the social history of seventeenth-century England in the past half-century. The evidence does not support C. B. Macpherson's claim that England had a “possessive market society” which became the social model for Hobbes's political theory, nor the case that Hobbes was a bourgeois ideologist. A new examination of his social theory, his social identity, his social prejudices and his understanding of what we today call social class instead produces a picture of an intellectual of the “middle sort” with strong aristocratic, pro-court sentiments. A clearer understanding of his social views would probably have prevented the current controversy over his political sentiments or channeled it in a different direction. The issues make a strong case for more social contextualization at the macro level of analysis in intellectual history.

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