Context of social action: guest editors' introduction

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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.
Original languageEnglish
JournalLanguage and Communication
Volume22
Issue number4
Pages (from-to)391-402
Number of pages12
ISSN0271-5309
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.10.2002
Externally publishedYes

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