Rethinking context as a social construct

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 743-759

  Akman, Varol ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

(Situated) context; Anthropological linguistics; Belief system; Genre; Interpretation; Literary theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034179244     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-2166(99)00067-3     Document Type: Article

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