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Contextualization in sociolinguistics refers to the use of language (both spoken language and body language) to signal relevant aspects of an interaction or communicative situation. This may include clues to who is talking, their relationship, where the conversation is occurring, and much more.
In semiotics, linguistics, sociology and anthropology, context refers to those objects or entities which surround a focal event, in these disciplines typically a communicative event, of some kind.
Contextualization may refer to: Contextualization (Bible translation) , the process of contextualising the biblical message as perceived in the missionary mandate originated by Jesus Contextualization (computer science) , an initialization phase setting or overriding properties having unknown or default values at the time of template creation
These theories maintain that style is best viewed as consisting of smaller, more variable units known as stances. In this view, a stance is essentially a form of contextualization; it indicates the position of an interlocutor with respect to a particular utterance, conversation or other interlocutors. [7]
High-context cultures often exhibit less-direct verbal and nonverbal communication, utilizing small communication gestures and reading more meaning into these less-direct messages. [4] Low-context cultures do the opposite; direct verbal communication is needed to properly understand a message being communicated and relies heavily on explicit ...
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Bevans first sketched out his ideas of various models of contextualization through his time as a missionary in the Philippines and when he was teaching at Catholic Theological Union. [1] [2] These ideas were expanded into Models, first published in 1992, which included five models: translation, anthropological, praxis, synthetic, and ...
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