ABSTRACT
Whenever we engage in conversation with another, we draw on many different features of the conversation in our sense-generating process. One of these features is the context. Where is the conversation taking place, under what circumstances, with what history? However, context is not a passive thing lying there in the background, a mere surrounding to the presumed more important text. On the contrary, context exists in a reflexive relationship with the utterances or text. In this sense, “context returns to its original Latin source as a verb meaning to weave together. Thus context and utterance reflexively evolve and inform one another” (Cronen, 1995a, p. 225).
