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Publication details [#14222]

Akman, Varol. 2000. Rethinking context as a social construct. Journal of Pragmatics 32 (6) : 743–759.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
anthropological linguistics | belief | context | genre | interpretation | literary theory
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

On the basis of the literary theoretical notion of 'interpretation', the work of Wendell Harris, Jon Barwise and Jerry Hobbs, anthropological linguistics and conversation analysis, a case is made for studying contexts as social constructs.