The Role of Context in the Interpretation of Academic and Professional Communication

Abstract

This paper deals w h he ain elements hat form part of academc and professional comunicaton, namely he role of context, he concepton of comunicaton tself, he discoursal academc strategies and conventons, and other notons such as background knowedge or comon shared knowedge. In the first secton, we focus our atenton on he relatonship between he context n which he ext unfolds and ts typology, i.e. he social environment and he functonal organisaton of anguage. Next, he role of context n cognion is highlighted, o contnue w h he nteracton of participants n he act of comunicaton and he analysis of he relatonship between comunicative ntenton, strategies and nterpretaton. Finally, we present various applcatons of nguistc context w h the cogniive interface.