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NOTION OF CONTEXT - Coggle Diagram

- - - - total environment
        
        verbal
        
        situation
        
        context of situation
        
        makes an utterance intelligible
        
        language
        
        technical terms, references to surroundings
        
        "in action"
        
        description of what is happening
        
        participants and practices surrounding the event
        
        context of culture
        
        total cultural background
        
        cultural history behind participants and practice
        
        Meaning of the linguistic interaction
- - - - social environment
      - functional organization of language
    - - field
        
        what is going on
        
        nature of social action
        
        e.g. justification
      - tenor
        
        participants
        
        their status, roles, relationships
        
        e.g. friend/lecturer
      - mode
        
        role language is playing
        
        organization of text
        
        status, function in context, channel, rhetorical mode
        
        e.g. spoken/written, informal/formal
- - - - text
        
        transmitted information
      - context
        
        what is already shared
        
        High-context culture
        
        e.g. Mediterranean culture
        
        information implicitly received
        
        implied meaning, non-verbal communication
        
        tendecy to expect more from others
        
        Operating mode
        
        context
        
        relationship/feelings
        
        indirectness
        
        flexibility
        
        appearance
        
        circumstances
        
        polychronic
        
        implicit politeness
        
        field: request
        
        tenor: barman and client
        
        mode: spoken language, informal, imperative
        
        tendencies
        
        no absolute sense
        
        Low-context culture
        
        e.g. Anglo-American culture
        
        information explicitly conveyed
        
        direct and informationally dense messages
        
        Operating mode
        
        text
        
        facts
        
        directness
        
        consistency
        
        substance
        
        rules
        
        monochronic
        
        study on audio guides
        
        safety recommendations
        
        Common sense (HCC)
        
        Explicit (LCC)
    - - depends on speaker and listener
    - - hypotizing what is going to be said
    - - around the world
    - - as context is lost