Rethinking Context
Subtitle: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language)
Contributors: Alessandro Duranti (Editor); Charles Goodwin (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 29, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9780521422888
Subjects: Anthropology; Oral communication; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Social Science; Vocabulary; Sociology; Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines-Sociolinguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines-Vocabulary; Language and culture Language and culture; Context (Linguistics); Anthropology - General; Language and culture
First sentence: Context has long been a key concept both in the field of pragmatics and in ethnographically oriented studies of language use as well as quantitative ones.