 Just how would you define "context"?
Being specific when you use the word “context”. How would you define the word "context"?
In How to Get a 2:1 in Media Communication and Cultural Studies, Noel Williams writes:
“Context” is one of those words you will encounter again and again, without anyone offering anything like a useful definition. It is something of a catch-all word usually used to mean “all those things in the situation which are relevant to meaning in some sense, but which I haven’t identified.”"
He goes on to say that context is typically used to refer to one or more of the following:
-“the cotext (i.e. other words used recently, and the kind of language in use, such as questions or answers, or greeting, or insult);.
-the physical situation (time, place, speaker, setting, etc);
-the knowledge and beliefs of the participants in the communication (such as, whether one person thinks the other is lacking in knowledge, or when both participants think they are working towards an agreement );
-the historical circumstances leading up to the communication  | 
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