context

Conditions associated with a communicative event that provide resources for its appropriate interpretation

EntityQ196626

Subclass of: situation

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In semiotics, linguistics, sociology and anthropology, context refers to those objects or entities which surround a focal event, in these disciplines typically a communicative event, of some kind. Context is "a frame that surrounds the event and provides resources for its appropriate interpretation". It is thus a relative concept, only definable with respect to some focal event within a frame, not independently of that frame.

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38 statements · 16% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Facet of: communication
Has use: interpretation including: word-sense disambiguation · uses: coherence
Studied by: semiotics
linguistics
sociology
anthropology
Different from: context
Members / parts: discourse topic
text has characteristic: adjacent
environment nature of statement: often · characteristic of: addressee, speaker
identity nature of statement: often · characteristic of: addressee, speaker
social status nature of statement: often · characteristic of: addressee, speaker

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21 identifiers linking context across the web's reference databases

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AIDB. (2026). context (Q196626). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/context-Q196626