Context and contexts : parts meet whole? / edited by Anita Fetzer, Etsuko Oishi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Context and Contexts; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Situated meaning in context; Why a mother's rule is not a law: The role of context in the interpretation of Greek laws; Fighting words: Hybrid discourse and discourse processes; Context and talk in confrontational discourses; Deixis in context; This? No, that! Constructing shared contexts in the conversational dyad; Strategic context importation in political discourse; Context, contrast, and the structure of discourse in Turkish; Communicative action in context.

Speech acts in contextHow are speech acts situated in context?; Context: An adaptive perspective; Subject index; Author index.

This book departs from the premise that context represents a complex relational configuration which can no longer be conceived as an analytic prime but rather requires a parts-whole perspective to capture its inherent dynamism. The edited volume presents a collection of papers which examine the connectedness between context, contextualization and entextualization. They address the questions how meaning and speech acts are situated in context, how both are influenced by context, how context influences speech acts and meaning, how context is imported into the discourse, and how context is entext.

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