Types of contexts

Levels of contextual abstraction.

What is meant by “context”? Three levels of abstraction can be suggested: the

Immediate situation of utterance, the context of utterance and the universe of discourse. The relationship between situation, context and universe are related in exactly the same way as utterance is to sentence and sentence to proposition, i. e. the situation is contained in the context and context in the universe of discourse. Thus:

The above-mentioned observations allow us to distinguish between the macro context (global context), communicative context and micro context (local context), i. e. the context of a particular utterance. In practice interpreters deal with these three types of overlapping contexts each time they have to perceive, understanding and translate messages of the SL speaker. These overlapping contexts are shown on the scheme below:

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