Abstract

Study on the Role of Context in Discourse Analysis from the Viewpoint of “Make” in Different Sentence Meanings

Highlights

  • Language, as the most significant communicative means for human beings, has been employed to perform various functions

  • Context is considered as the environment where language exists, functions and develops

  • Context is the precondition of discourse analysis

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Summary

INTRODUCTION

As the most significant communicative means for human beings, has been employed to perform various functions. Its forms and contents are continually enriched with each passing day. Language is a complicated system, where we can find some rules, which is what we call linguistics. It may face a certain subject under different conditions of specific time, occasion, social and historical background. We can find out that even the same sentence, appearing in different context, may be endowed with opposite meanings. The better comprehension and digestion of context appears, the easier for us to catch the deep-seated information the author implies

LITERATURE REVIEW
Previous Study on Context
Previous Study on the Discourse Analysis
Summary
ANALYSIS OF THE MEANING OF ‘MAKE’ IN VARIOUS STRUCTURES
Meaning of “make” in SVOC
Meaning of “make” in SVO
Function as causative verbs
Function as Notional Verbs
FUNCTION OF CONTEXT IN UNDERSTANDING THE MEANING OF ‘MAKE’
Identifying the Meaning of a Word
Eliminating the Ambiguity
Overcoming Cultural Obstacles
CONCLUSION
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