Context as a Dynamic Construct and the Problem of Context Sensitivity
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/stul.12115" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/stul.12115</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/stul.12115" target="_blank" >10.1111/stul.12115</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Context as a Dynamic Construct and the Problem of Context Sensitivity
Original language description
This paper is concerned with different aspects of the concept of context, predominantly from the perspective of contemporary pragmatically‐oriented linguistics. As it is frequently claimed that the precise meaning of an utterance may be determined correctly only in context, but, at the same time, no agreement has been reached on how context should be adequately defined, one aim of this study is to focus on different characteristics of this phenomenon and to explain how context may be best understood within a pragmatic approach. This is connected with context sensitivity. Some expressions in natural language are prototypical examples of it, while others are rather controversial. The other aim of this study is to examine context sensitivity from the point of view of several semantic theories and to propose within which systematic linguistic theory it could be best integrated. It turns out that the concept of context should best be treated as a dynamic construct inherently connected with communication. Since it is, at the same time, a multilayered concept, it is almost impossible to produce a widely acceptable theory of context. Regarding a systematic theory within which context sensitivity could be integrated, semantic minimalism seems to be the most appropriate.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Studia Linguistica
ISSN
0039-3193
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
73
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
42-59
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85060909153