ABSTRACT
Linguistics.—There is no fixed or universal definition of context. For some, the terms context and situation overlap or are even confounded-Bronislav Malinowski and John Firth spoke of “situational context” and “context of situation.” Other investigators have attempted to make a clear-cut distinction between the two terms, for example, by defining context as a limited set of dimensions relevant to the current activity, and situation as the set of dimensions potentially available at the time the activity is taking place (→TIME AND TENSE).
