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( SCA) SCA

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A Study on Context from the Socio-cognitive Approach to Pragmatics

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ZHOU Honghui RAN Yongping1
( 1 CLALGuangdong University of Foreign StudiesGuangzhou 510420China;
2 Zhanjiang Normal UniversityZhanjiang 524048China)

Abstract This paper studies context from the socio-cognitive approach to pragmatics ( SCA) By analyzing the
collective and individual prior context and dueling contextit illustrates the commonness and divergence of context
and the dialectical relation between prior context and actual situational context; then it discusses the emergent
property of context construction by describing the dynamic continuum of contextual elements and the mechanism of co-
construction SCA offers a new perspective about verbal communication
Key words socio-cognitive approach to pragmatics; prior context; emergent context; co-construct

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Sperber Wilson 10

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Malinowski Firth 17
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prior
context SCA
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SCA Istvan Kecskes 6 7
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hearer-designed 8 53
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prior experience
salience Sperber Wilson 10
egocentrism
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knowledge

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Kecskes 8
emergent property

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extralinguistic context
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actual situational context


situation-bound utterance

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( 1) Assistant: Can I help you?

Customer: Nothanks Im only looking

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Can I help youI m only

cognitive looking SBU
environment

3 1 pragmatic idiom How are you

doingWelcome aboard
SBU 1
standard context
Im only looking
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SBU

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Im only looking

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Help yourself

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4 M1 I wanted to talk with you about
somethingbut I cant remember what
W1 NOTES SEWING THREADS ON THE
TABLE It must have to do with thread joking
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jeans joking
W2 You knowthe first interpretation I
= got was genes with a g 4
= + gene jean
gene
di n
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TABLE
W less salient
jean

3 2 Dynamic Model of
Meaning DMM 6
dueling context DMM


contextualization
privatized
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parallel context mechanism


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