Text, Role and Context
Text, Role and Context

Author: Ann M. Johns

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-06-13

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9780521561389

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This text explores fundamental issues relating to student literacies and instructor roles and practices within academic contexts. It offers a brief history of literacy theories and argues for "socioliterate" approaches to teaching and learning in which texts are viewed as primarily socially constructed. Central to socioliteracy, the concepts "genre" and "discourse community," are presented in detail. The author argues for roles for literacy practitioners in which they and their students conduct research and are involved in joint pedagogical endeavors. The final chapters are devoted to outlining how the views presented can be applied to a variety of classroom texts. Core curricular design principles are outlined, and three types of portfolio-based academic literacy classrooms are described.

The Role of Context in Language Teachers' Self Development and Motivation
The Role of Context in Language Teachers' Self Development and Motivation

Author: Amy S. Thompson

Publisher: Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781800411173

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Senegal : "We English teachers, we speak English." -- Vietnam : "English is a privilege for me" -- Egypt : "Why is he comparing her to a summer's day?" -- Argentina : "Learning the language will never end." -- Turkey : "I'm better than these guys." -- Ukraine : "I know how my people think." -- Estonia : "Teachers speak better." -- Final thoughts.

What is a Context?
What is a Context?

Author: Rita Finkbeiner

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9027255792

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Context is a core notion of linguistic theory. However, while there are numerous attempts at explaining single aspects of the notion of context, these attempts are rather diverse and do not easily converge to a unified theory of context. The present multi-faceted collection of papers reconsiders the notion of context and its challenges for linguistics from different theoretical and empirical angles. Part I offers insights into a wide range of current approaches to context, including theoretical pragmatics, neurolinguistics, clinical pragmatics, interactional linguistics, and psycholinguistics. Part II presents new empirical findings on the role of context from case studies on idioms, unarticulated constituents, argument linking, and numerically-quantified expressions. Bringing together different theoretical frameworks, the volume provides thought-provoking discussions of how the notion of context can be understood, modeled, and implemented in linguistics. It is essential for researchers interested in theoretical and applied linguistics, the semantics/pragmatics interface, and experimental pragmatics.

Corpus and Context
Corpus and Context

Author: Svenja Adolphs

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9789027223043

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Corpus and Context explores the relationship between corpus linguistics and pragmatics by discussing possible frameworks for analysing utterance function on the basis of spoken corpora. The book articulates the challenges and opportunities associated with a change of focus in corpus research, from lexical to functional units, from concordance lines to extended stretches of discourse, and from the purely textual to multi-modal analysis of spoken corpus data. Drawing on a number of spoken corpora including the five million word Cambridge and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English (CANCODE, funded by CUP (c)), a specific speech act function is being explored using different approaches and different levels of analysis. This involves a close analysis of contextual variables in relation to lexico-grammatical and discoursal patterns that emerge from the corpus data, as well as a wider discussion of the role of context in spoken corpus research.

Context and Contexts
Context and Contexts

Author: Anita Fetzer

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 9027256136

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Based on papers from the IPrA Conference, which was held in Melbourne in 2009.

Context
Context

Author: Robert Stalnaker

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0199645167

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Robert Stalnaker explores the contexts in which speech takes place, the ways we represent them, and the roles they play in explaining the interpretation and dynamics of speech. His central thesis is the autonomy of pragmatics: the independence of theory about structure and function of discourse from theory about mechanisms serving those functions.

The Role of Context in the Production and Reception of Historical News Discourse
The Role of Context in the Production and Reception of Historical News Discourse

Author: Nicholas Brownlees

Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

Published: 2021-08-10

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9783034341813

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The volume examines the role of context in the production and reception of historical news texts from the 17th until the 20th centuries. The authors use various methodological approaches comprising historical pragmatics and corpus linguistics. The volume is divided into: British News Contexts, International News Contexts, and Advertising Contexts

Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology
Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology

Author: Sebastian Löbner

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-05-28

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 3030502007

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This open access book presents novel theoretical, empirical and experimental work exploring the nature of mental representations that support natural language production and understanding, and other manifestations of cognition. One fundamental question raised in the text is whether requisite knowledge structures can be adequately modeled by means of a uniform representational format, and if so, what exactly is its nature. Frames are a key topic covered which have had a strong impact on the exploration of knowledge representations in artificial intelligence, psychology and linguistics; cascades are a novel development in frame theory. Other key subject areas explored are: concepts and categorization, the experimental investigation of mental representation, as well as cognitive analysis in semantics. This book is of interest to students, researchers, and professionals working on cognition in the fields of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.

Meaning, Context and Methodology
Meaning, Context and Methodology

Author: Sarah-Jane Conrad

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-10-23

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1501504231

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What methodological impact does Contextualism have on the philosophy of language? This collection sets out to provide some answers. The authors in this volume question three ultimately connected assumptions of the philosophy of language. The first assumption relates to the predominant status of referential semantics and its power to explain truth-conditional meaning. This assumption has come under attack by the context thesis and a number of papers pursue the question of whether this is justified. The second assumption gives priority to assertive sentences when considering language use. The context thesis changes our understanding of language use altogether; possible implications from this methodological shift are addressed in this volume. According to the third assumption, philosophical analysis amounts to nothing more than conceptual analysis. The context thesis risks undermining this project. Whether conceptual analysis can still be defended as a methodological tool is discussed in this volume.