Article outline

• 7.1Introduction
• 7.2Approaches to context
  • a.Social and sociocultural context
  • b.Linguistic context (or co-text)
  • c.Cognitive context
• 7.3Deixis
  • a.Person deixis
  • b.Place deixis
  • c.Time deixis
  • d.Discourse deixis
  • e.Social deixis
  • f.Emotional deixis
• 7.4Information management
  • 7.4.1Staging
  • 7.4.2Given and new information
• 7.5Perspectivization
  • a.Vision
  • b.Focalization
  • c.Empathy
• 7.6Implicit meaning
  • 7.6.1Presuppositions
  • 7.6.2Inferences
• 7.7Summary
• Questions and assignments
• Bibliographical information