Context and Contexts -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Pragmatics and context -- 2. Context and contexts -- 3. The contributions -- References -- Situated meaning in context -- Why a mother's rule is not a law: The role of context in the interpretation of Greek laws -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Law, speech acts, context and genre -- 3.1 Law -- 3.2 Speech acts -- 3.3 Context -- 3.4 Genre -- 4. Tense, aspect, modality and conditionals in Greek -- 4.1 Tense -- 4.2 Aspect -- 4.3 Modality -- 4.4 Conditionals in Greek -- 5. Modality, aspect and tense in Greek laws -- 5.1 Modality -- 5.2 Aspect -- 5.3 Tense -- 5.4 Statistical data -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- Fighting words: Hybrid discourse and discourse processes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Multilayered model of context -- 3. Contextualization and entextualization -- 4. Analyses -- 4.1 Choice analysis: Structure of the media interview -- 4.2 Chain analysis: Increasing the rhetoric against Colombia -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Context and talk in confrontational discourses -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Perspectives on context -- 3. The media interview -- 4. Overview and data -- 5. Interactional behaviour of the participants -- 6. Socially significant relationships in the interviews -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Deixis in context -- This? No, that! Constructing shared contexts in the conversational dyad -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two and three term systems of demonstrative pronouns -- 2.1 Two term systems: Polish -- 2.2 Three term systems: Spanish -- 2.3 How to express spaces at a middle distance in Polish? -- 3. Constructing spatial context in the conversational dyad -- 3.1 Face-to-face conversations -- 3.2 Face-to-back: Constructing the hearer-side space.

3.3 Side-by-side: Near and distant spaces -- 4. Constructing context to coordinate manual activities -- 4.1 The construction of unshared spaces in face-to-back situation -- 4.2 The construction of shared spaces in a face-to-face situation -- 4.3 Explicit and implicit: Use in different languages -- 5. Context and contexts -- 5.1 From space to time: The activity of recontextualizing -- 5.2 The dynamics of contextualization: From shared to unshared spaces -- 6. Parts meet whole: State of the art and outlook -- References -- Strategic context importation in political discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Context and context importation -- 2.1 Social and sociocultural context -- 2.2 Linguistic context -- 2.3 Cognitive context -- 2.4 Context invocation and context importation -- 3. Political discourse in context -- 3.1 Data -- 3.2 Genre-specific analysis -- 4. Place deixis: Here and there -- 4.1 Here in context -- 4.2 There in context -- 4.3 Here and there in political discourse -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Context, contrast, and the structure of discourse in Turkish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Context -- 3. Methodology and research questions -- 4. Contrast and the contrastive adverbial connective (tam) tersine -- 4.1 Horn's Q-based and R-based implicature and negation -- 4.2 Descriptive vs. metalinguistic negation -- 5. The adverbial (tam) tersine in discourse context -- 6. The effect of the tripartite discourse structure on cognitive context -- 7. The motivation for refutation-rectification pairs: The use of the adverb in the argument mode -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Communicative action in context -- Speech acts in context -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Context -- 3. The force of words -- 4. Situations and speech acts -- 5. On 'seeing' a situation -- 6. Politics, diplomacy and conversation -- 7. Speech acts and (con)text -- 8. Conclusion.

References -- How are speech acts situated in context? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is it to perform an illocutionary act? -- 2.1 A model of illocutionary acts -- 2.2 How can performing an illocutionary act be successful? -- 3. How are illocutionary acts evaluated? -- 3.1 Conventionality of illocutionary acts and instances of performing illocutionary acts -- 3.2 Strength of illocutionary acts -- 4. The issues of speech acts -- 4.1 The meaning-force distinction -- 4.2 Conventionality of illocutionary acts -- 5. How are illocutionary acts situated? -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Context: An adaptive perspective -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Context from an adaptive perspective -- 2.1 From external environment to external context -- 2.2 The external context as context of reference -- 2.3 From context of reference to learning context -- 2.4 The role of internal values in context construction: A summary -- 2.5 Acquired skills and action selection -- 2.6 From external to internalized context -- 2.7 Recapitulation -- 2.8 Some implications -- 3. Context and linguistic action -- 3.1 Action selection: What a higher level of complexity entails -- 3.2 Processes involved in context construction: A higher level of complexity -- 3.3 Context construction and the comprehension skills issue -- 3.3 Closing remark -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Subject index -- Author index.