THE ROLE OF CONTEXT IN INTERPRETATION; CONTEXT OF SITUATION By : group 3 A
1. DEFINITION OF CONTEXT context is a schematic construct... the achievement of pragmatic meaning is a matter of matching up the linguistic elements of the code with the schematic elements of the context. 2. “ETHNOGRAPHY OF SPEAKING” DELL HYMES (1972) S P E A K I N G
3. CLASSIFICATION OF CONTEXT
1.
LINGUISTIC CONTEXT
2.
SITUATIONAL CONTEXT
Field
tenor
mode
3. CULTURAL CONTEXT
4. THE ROLE OF CONTEXT
1. Eliminating Ambiguity 2. Indicating Referents
3. Detecting Conversational Implicature