Abstract:The existing context theories have played a very important role in language study so far. As the focus on language study has shifted from sentence to discourse, the present theories begin to reveal th...The existing context theories have played a very important role in language study so far. As the focus on language study has shifted from sentence to discourse, the present theories begin to reveal their deficiency, for example, context is devoiced from discourse; the boundary of context is rather fuzzy; and no clear context-classification criterion is available. All these greatly weaken the power of context and hinder context study from its full development. To change the situation, this paper aims to put forward the idea of discourse context, which relates context to discourse closely.Read More
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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