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  2. Context (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Verbal context influences the way an expression is understood; hence the norm of not citing people out of context. Since much contemporary linguistics takes texts, discourses, or conversations as the object of analysis, the modern study of verbal context takes place in terms of the analysis of discourse structures and their mutual relationships ...

  3. Metamodernism - Wikipedia

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    Metamodernism is the term for a cultural discourse and paradigm that has emerged after postmodernism.It refers to new forms of contemporary art and theory that respond to modernism and postmodernism and integrate aspects of both together.

  4. Contemporary art - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality. In English, modern and contemporary are synonyms, resulting in some conflation and confusion of the terms modern art and contemporary art by non-specialists. [1]

  5. Contextualism - Wikipedia

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    Contextualism in architecture is a theory of design where modern building types are harmonized with urban forms usual to a traditional city. [5] In epistemology, contextualism is the treatment of the word 'knows' as context-sensitive. Context-sensitive expressions are ones that "express different propositions relative to different contexts of ...

  6. Relevance - Wikipedia

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    The obvious suggestion that q is relevant to p if q is implied by p breaks down because under standard definitions of material implication, a false proposition implies all other propositions. However though 'iron is a metal' may be implied by 'cats lay eggs' it doesn't seem to be relevant to it the way in which 'cats are mammals' and 'mammals ...

  7. Contemporary (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary is the historical period that is immediately relevant to the present and is a certain perspective of modern history. Contemporary may also refer to: Contemporary philosophy; Contemporary art, post-World War II art; Contemporary dance, a modern genre of concert dance; Contemporary literature, post-World War II literature

  8. Modernity - Wikipedia

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    In the context of art history, modernity (Fr. modernité) has a more limited sense, modern art covering the period of c. 1860–1970. Use of the term in this sense is attributed to Charles Baudelaire , who in his 1863 essay " The Painter of Modern Life ", designated the "fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis", and the ...

  9. Context - Wikipedia

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    Context (festival), an annual Russian festival of modern choreography Archaeological context, an event in time which has been preserved in the archaeological record; Opaque context, the linguistic context in which substitution of co-referential expressions does not preserve truth