Rethinking Context

Language as an Interactive Phenomenon

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The last decade has seen a fundamental rethinking of the concept of context. Rather than functioning solely as a constraint on linguistic performance, context is now also analysed as a product of language use. In this new perspective, language and context are seen as interactively achieved phenomena, rather than predefined sets of forms and contents. The essays in this collection, written by many of the leading figures in the social sciences, critically reexamine the concept of context from a variety of different angles and propose new ways of thinking about it with reference to specific human activities such as face-to-face interaction, radio talk, medical diagnosis, political encounters and socialisation practices. Each essay is prefaced by an introduction by the editors which provides relevant theoretical and methodological background and demonstrates its relation to other essays in the volume. The editors' general introduction provides a lucid overview of the issues currently debated. Rethinking Context will be required reading for everyone working within the fields of linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, conversation analysis and the sociology of language.

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"This collection of extremely well-written and well-argued essays will have a broad appeal for students of language, interaction, coversation analysis, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics. This book will be useful for graduate courses in those areas, as well as in qualitative methodology, because defining and understanding context are important for qualitative research, not just that which directly focuses on language use." Angela Garcia, Contemporary Sociology "The perspectives represented in the volume are wide-ranging and impressive...The editors, in particular, and their contributors have done the field a service by offering it this volume, the most successful and thought-provoking collection of papers by various researchers that I have seen in some time." Keith Walters, Anthropological Linguistics "...a highly useful demonstration of both the numerous versions of context available in the literature and the importance of being precise in what one means by the term in any particular instance." Gary D. Prideaux, Canadian Journal of Linguistics

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List of contributors	p. viii
Rethinking context: an introduction	p. 1
The indexical ground of deictic reference	p. 43
Language in context and language as context: the Samoan respect vocabulary	p. 77
Context contests: debatable truth statements on Tanna (Vanuatu)	p. 101
Contextualization, tradition, and the dialogue of genres: Icelandic legends of the kraftaskald	p. 125
Assessments and the construction of context	p. 147
In another context	p. 191
Contextualization and understanding	p. 229
Contextualization in Kalapalo narratives	p. 253
Radio talk-show therapy and the pragmatics of possible worlds	p. 271
The interpenetration of communicative contexts: examples from medical encounters	p. 291
The routinization of repair in courtroom discourse	p. 311
The negotiation of context in face-to-face interaction	p. 323
Indexing gender	p. 335
Index	p. 359
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