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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 va
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- Author
- Alessandro Duranti (editor), Charles Goodwin (editor)
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521381697
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Sociology, Literary Fiction, Anthropology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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