TY - JOUR

T1 - Context of social action

T2 - guest editors' introduction

AU - Fetzer, Anita

AU - Akman, Varol

PY - 2002/10/1

Y1 - 2002/10/1

N2 - In traditional linguistic accounts of context, one thinks of the immediate features of a speech situation, that is, a situation in which an expression is uttered. Thus, features such as time, location, speaker, hearer and preceding discourse are all parts of context. But context is a wider and more transcendental notion than what these accounts imply. For one thing, context is a relational concept relating social actions and their surroundings, relating social actions, relating individual actors and their surroundings, and relating the set of individual actors and their social actions to their surroundings.

AB - In traditional linguistic accounts of context, one thinks of the immediate features of a speech situation, that is, a situation in which an expression is uttered. Thus, features such as time, location, speaker, hearer and preceding discourse are all parts of context. But context is a wider and more transcendental notion than what these accounts imply. For one thing, context is a relational concept relating social actions and their surroundings, relating social actions, relating individual actors and their surroundings, and relating the set of individual actors and their social actions to their surroundings.

KW - English

U2 - 10.1016/S0271-5309(02)00016-2

DO - 10.1016/S0271-5309(02)00016-2

M3 - Other (editorial matter etc.)

VL - 22

SP - 391

EP - 402

JO - Language and Communication

JF - Language and Communication

SN - 0271-5309

IS - 4

ER -