Theoretical Foundations of Discourse Analysis in Discourse-based Context Analysis

Abstract

Language is a vital tool for human being’s communication; speech communication is another important part in our social activities. This thesis will investigate the nature of context. Rather than attempt to examine the whole range of what context might be called, it will be useful to narrow our focus. It is easy to overstate the utterance-specific picture of context. There are, of course, some fairly obvious ways in which discourse can affect context, and both theories of context we have discussed can easily make room for some aspects of discourse.