CONTEXT WORD MEANING

CONTEXT WORD MEANING

1. CONTEXT WORD MEANING

   • CONTEXT
     • Immediate linguistic environment in which a particular word occurs.
       • SENTENTIAL CONTEXT
         • Syntactic information to know if the “Key Word” has any explicit or implicit syntactic relation with the other words.
       • TOPICAL CONTEXT
         • The actual meaning of the “key word” depends on the topic because it has a role to alter it's etymological meaning.
       • GLOBAL CONTEXT
         • The meaning of the “Key word” is related with extralinguistic reality surrounding the linguistic acts undertaken by language users.
       • LOCAL CONTEXT
         • The immediate environment of the “Key Word” in a sentence where it has occurred.
   • INTERFACE AMONG THE CONTEXTS
     • Each context is interlinked with the other in an invisible thread of interdependency
       • The local context holds utmost importance in understanding the contextual meaning of the “key word”
         • Understanding the meaning of the KW depends heavily on the knowledgebase of the language users.
   • INTRODUCTION
     • The context determines which meaning of the word should be considered.
       • Identification of context depends on intuitive ability of a language user.