Introduction: The Role of Context in Linguistics
Systemic Functional Linguistics and Context - From Theory to Model and Application - Rebekah Wegener
Rebekah Wegener [+]
University of Salzburg
Rebekah Wegener is a senior researcher in linguistics and semiotics at the Institute for English and American Studies at Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Austria, and co-founder of learning technology startup Audaxi in Sydney, Australia.
Description
Context has probably always been recognised as essential to meaning, since, at least at some level, theorists have needed to incorporate the idea that meaning must depend on context, even if that is only at the level of the surrounding sounds, words, sentences. In this chapter we introduce the notion of context and some of the key concepts that we need to consider when we deal with context.