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Noun Concept
Categories: Articles with short description, Pragmatics, Discourse analysis, Sociolinguistics, All articles with unsourced statements
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context  linguistic context  context of use  co-text  Context of situation
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Discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation WordNet 3.0
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Discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In semiotics, linguistics, sociology and anthropology, context refers to those objects or entities which surround a focal event, in these disciplines typically a communicative event, of some kind. Wikipedia
The relevant constraints of the communicative situation that influence language use, language variation, and discourse summary Wikipedia Disambiguation
Conditions associated with a communicative event that provide resources for its appropriate interpretation Wikidata
The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning. OmegaWiki