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1、1.troductionofContext1.1TheDefinitionoflncontextContextisdefinedasaunityofsharedknowledgewhichaffectsacertainlinguisticeventinlinguisticcommunicationLongmanDictionaryinLinguisticsdefinesitasmessageexistingbeforeandaftertheword,phrase,utterance,andtextunderdiscussion
2、;itishelpfultotheunderstandingofthespecificmeaningoftheword,phrase,utterance,andtext.Contextsarealignmentsofrealityalongfivedifferentaxes:linguistic,situational,interactional,cultural,andintertextual.Becauselanguageisattheintersectionoftheindividualandthesocial,itbo
3、threflectsandconstruesthesocialrealitycalled'contextContextisthematrixcreatedbylanguageasdiscourseandasaformofsocialpractice.Contextshouldbeviewednotasanaturalgiven,butasasocialconstruct,theproductoflinguisticchoicesmadebytwoormoreindividualsinteractingthroughlangu
4、age.Broadly,theterm"context”referstoallthedifferentsituationsinvolvedinlanguagecommunication.Contextconsistsofanyelementsinvokedbyanyparticipants,andconsequently'participants^conceptionsofeachothersmentalcontextsmaybewrongor,morelikely,onlypartiallyright...anyphysic
5、alsetofcircumstancescouldlenditselftoaninfinityofpossiblesharedconceptionsandrelevance?Contextisnotsimplyreferredtotheprecedinglinguistictext,ortheenvironmentinwhichtheutterancetakesplace,butthesetofassumptionsbroughttobearattheintendedinterpretation.Contextconnects
6、withoneofthekeyproblemsininterpretation:recognizingtheculturalrelationshipsbetweenwhatisreferredto,aswellasthelinguisticrelationshipsbetweenelementsinthelinguisticsystem?L2HistoryofstudiesoncontextForthepastthirtyyearsatleast,appliedlinguisticandteachersofEnglishhav
7、etalkedabouttheimportanceof"understandinglanguageincontext".Itisoftenunclearwhatismeantby"context".Inthe1960s,thefashionwastoconstructtaxonomiesofexternalfeaturesofcontext(suchasspeaker,hearer,placeandtimeofutterance,genre,etc).Morerecentlyappliedlinguistshaveturned
8、tothelatertheorieswhichhaveattemptedtoshowhowfeaturescontributetounderstandinglanguage.Asfarastheimportanceofcontextinactuallanguageuseisc
