Abstract
Speech actors in Christian counselling exhibit shared situational knowledge and assumptions in constructing meaning and in the negotiation of the goal of the interaction. This is particularly helpful to the counsellor for effective counselling andas a prerequisite for the proper diagnosis of myriad of issues confronting man in addition to showing empathy to the client. Against the advocacy, from a segment of scholars, for the exclusion of context from, or, that context is only tangential to meaning, this study, based on the sociolinguistic framework provided by Dell Hymes (1962) as modified by Levinson’s (1979) ‘notion of activity type’ explores shared situational knowledge (SSK) among interactants with examples drawn from the Jay E. Adams’ counselling cases. The study concludes that SSK manifests as social, religious and emotional undercurrents in the counselling situation. This understanding is a vital tool in providing the counsellor a linguistic direction in his investigation and the subsequent advice on diverse problems that are brought to his desk.
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