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The Significance of Context in Comprehension: The `WeCase'

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This paper deals with some of the issues raisedabout the use of context in language, that is,the pragmatic side of the problem; morespecifically it aims to stress the significanceand complexity of context. In real life context is exploited both in production and in comprehension.I will deal here mainly with comprehension:after briefly referring to cognitive contextsand their interaction with knowledge andcomprehension, and touching on the relationbetween language and context, I will analyzethe uses of an indexical pronoun, we,which may both include and exclude speaker/sand/or interlocutor/s, and cannot beinterpreted without referring to an`integrated' view of context.

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Bazzanella, C. The Significance of Context in Comprehension: The `WeCase'. Foundations of Science 7, 239–254 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019657025835

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