The Contextualization of Language

This volume suggests a novel treatment of context in the analysis of everyday interaction. On a theoretical level, it advocates a switch of focus from 'context' as a preestablished, monolithic category which constringes co-participants' verbal and nonverbal behaviour, to an active notion of 'contextualization': in order to make oneself understood, participants have to establish and maintain those shared contextual frames which in turn are relevant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556192908
• ISBN13: 9781556192906
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 402 Pages