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Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon

By Charles Goodwin (editor) , Alessandro Duranti (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1992
ISBN
052138169X, 0521422884
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16940126 bytes)
Series
Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language; 11
Edition
1
Pages
371\372
DPI
600
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-06-09 16:22:25

Description

The past decade has seen a fundamental rethinking of the concept of context. Rather than functioning solely as a constraint on linguistic performance, context is now analyzed as a product of language use. Language and context are seen as interactively defined phenomena. The essays in this collection, written by many of the leading figures in the social sciences, critically reexamine the concept of context from a variety of different angles and propose new ways of thinking about it with reference to specific human activities such as face-to-face interaction, radio talk, medical diagnosis, political encounters and socialization practices. The editors have provided introductions to each essay as well as a general overview of the issues under debate.

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