- Does context influence language?
- How does context influence language choice?
- Does language choices depend on social context?
- What is language preference?
Does context influence language?
Context is important in language comprehension, but context effects are variable, and some are more robust than others. Dr Knoeferle explains: “Our immediate environment can affect language comprehension in real time.
How does context influence language choice?
It is widely accepted that language requires context in order to function as communication between speakers and listeners. As listeners, we make use of background knowledge — about the speaker, about entities and concepts, about previous utterances — in order to infer the speaker's intended meaning.
Does language choices depend on social context?
All the time language is changing because of social contexts and social contexts cause the language to be changed.
What is language preference?
Language preference was operationally defined as the most frequently selected language output.