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Auer, Peter. 1996. Context and contextualization. In Östman, Jan-Ola, Jef Verschueren, Jan Blommaert and Chris Bulcaen, eds. Handbook of Pragmatics.1995 Installment. John Benjamins.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | contextualization | pragmatics | text

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

Annotation

Context has become a central notion of pragmatic thinking. This essay will attempt to outline some of the theoretial problems that have arisen in the discussion of the text-context link, and develop criteria according to which ‘theories of context’ can be categorized and evaluated.