The Role of Context in Meaning Formation

Sara Hisham
Bahra Burhan
Kaiwan Ramathan
Janna Sabah

Context provides meaning and clarity to the intended message. Context clues in a literary work create a relationship between the writer and reader, giving a deeper understanding of the intent and direction of the writing. Context is a mix of our upbringing, culture, religion, memories, and experiences, along with our other cues and clues from the individual communicating the message. Context influences how we interpret information. We look at and understand the world through the glasses. The data collection for this research collected through data from books, research papers, website article, journals from different places, and the data is secondary not primary. Context plays a very important role in discourse analysis. A discourse and its context are in close relationship: the discourse elaborates its context and the context helps interpret the meaning of utterances in the discourse. The knowledge of context is a premise of the analysis of a discourse.