Dimensions of Context. Classifying Approaches to the Context of Communication

• Authors: Allwood Jens , Ahlsén Elisabeth
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper analyzes the concept of context with a special focus on the context of communication. We suggest two ways of classifying approaches to the context of communication: (i) classifying approaches based on a number of relevant dimensions for analyzing context in social activities, (ii) classifying approaches, based on the dimensions of Peirce’s semiotics. We also discuss the use of collected corpora of language, especially multimodal corpora of spoken interaction, as an aid in studying context. Finally, building on the two ways of classifying approaches to the context of communication, we present our own proposal for how to analyze the main relevant contextual dimensions influencing human interaction and communication

Keywords

EN

Context; approaches to context; dimensions of context; syntactic context; semantic context; pragmatic context; semiotics; representamen; object; interpretant; relevant contexts

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Journal: Filozofia i nauka. Studia filozoficzne i interdyscyplinarne
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 7/1
• Pages: 77-90

Contributors

author

Allwood Jens

• SCCIIL Interdisciplinary Center, Department of Applied IT, University of Gothenburg, Forskningsgången 6, Hus Patricia, Lindholmen, 412 96 Göteborg, Sweden

author

Ahlsén Elisabeth

• SCCIIL Interdisciplinary Center, Department of Applied IT, University of Gothenburg, Forskningsgången 6, Hus Patricia, Lindholmen, 412 96 Göteborg, Sweden