Exploring Contextualism And Performativity The Environment Matters 1st Edition Alessandro Capone by Alessandro Capone, Assunta Penna, (eds.) 9783031125423, 3031125428 instant download after payment.

This book is an outcome of the research on contextualism financed by the University of Messina in a Research and Mobility grant. The issue of context (and linguistic and non- linguistic presuppositions, including cultural presuppositions) intersects with language, intended as a linguistic system (langue) and language as a performance system (language usage). Given the adaptability of language and its needs to accommodate to reality, weareable to predict (and notice with respect to previous manifestations of language) that the linguistic system will have slots that will allow language users to connect with the local and non-local context in which they are operative; and the same time, we expect that users will presuppose (rather than vocalize) many features of the context that are known to their hearers (and co-participants). Furthermore, speakers, as Kecskes (2019) says, co-produceemer-gent context, in that they will orient to what comes forward and add the things they say (and interpret) to the vast slice of knowledge they utilize when they speak and act (given that in addition to speech acts, non-linguistic acts are also seen in the light of the context, especially if we want to assign values to certain instances of behaviour (why did he behave like this?)).