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tends to convey。 while with context, there is generally no danger of misinterpretation, for meaning lives in context and context defines meaning. (Lodwig, 1973) context Linguistic context Nonlinguistic context Types of Context Two types of contexts ? Linguistic context refers to words, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, or the whole book in which a word appears. ? Extralinguistic context refers to a particular time, space, or culture in which a word appears. ? the actual speech situation ? the entire cultural background Linguistic context ? Linguistic context can be further divided into ? Lexical context ? Grammatical context ? Lexical context: the lexemes that cooccur with the word in SENTENCE. The meaning of the word is affected or determined by the neighboring lexemes. Example: paper The word “ paper” has a number of meanings in the dictionary, but in each of the following context, it conveys only one meaning. ? a sheet of paper ? a white paper ? a term paper ? today’ s paper ? examination paper Grammatical context ? In some cases, the meaning of a polysemous word may be determined by the grammatical structure (not specific words) in which it occurs. get+NP: get a big apple。 get an interesting book get+AP: get very angry。 get incredibly cold get…to do: I got him to do the job. Extralinguistic context