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  • 6 - Role of Context

  • from Part II - Key Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics Research
  • Edited by Istvan Kecskes, State University of New York, Albany
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Pragmatics
    Published online:
    29 September 2022
    Print publication:
    20 October 2022, pp 139-163

  • Summary

    The concept of context has undergone some fundamental rethinking in the scientific community. Rather than being considered an external constraint on linguistic performance, context is analyzed as a product of language use and thus as an interactional achievement, which is negotiated and co-constructed, imported and invoked. Context and contexts are analyzed from the perspectives of interlocutors, considering contextualization, recontextualization and decontextualization, and entextualization. The complexity, multilayeredness and dynamics of context have far-reaching implications on its role in intercultural pragmatics with interlocutors from different linguistic backgrounds having diverging meaning-making processes, diverging contextualization conventions, and thus diverging constructions of context. Intercultural pragmatics thus calls for context-sensitive particularizations of the fundamental premises of cooperation, contextualization, meaning-making process, and negotiation of discourse common ground.