What is the context?

 

So, the same information can be interpreted in completely different ways depending on the surrounding/accompanying context. In the future, we will perceive the term context in accordance with the formulation of the concise explanatory psychological and psychiatric dictionary as "a setting, frame, or process in which events occur and meaning is provided for the content (content)."

What is the context? This word is quite common in literature, as well as in conversations with people. It's not uncommon to hear someone say, "taken out of context." However, what is the meaning of this concept? In this article, I will explain the word "context" in simple terms, as well as give examples of its use.

What is the context? Context is a complete passage of written or oral speech (text), the general meaning of which makes it possible to clarify the meaning of individual words and sentences included in it. It often happens that it is possible to understand the true meaning of a phrase or even a sentence only when considering a meaningful passage of speech or text. Otherwise, the phrase may be understood in a completely different way. Eg: "Over the past week, Nikolay has been eating a lot of apricots every day. As a result, he started looking at apricots with disgust." The phrase "Nikolay looks at apricots with disgust" may suggest that Nikolay does not like apricots. However, if you read this phrase in context, you can understand that he began to look at apricots with disgust because he ate too many of them. It is worth noting that the context may not always be text or words. It can be presented in the form of any circumstances. For example, you approach a fish seller at the market and ask him the question: "How much?". Of course, the seller will understand that you are interested in the price of fish. However, if you had approached him somewhere on the street and asked the same question, he probably would not have understood you. That is, your question would look out of the context of the circumstances. Today, people quite often take out some words from quotations, as a result of which phrases begin to have a completely different meaning. For example, "Yesterday, traffic was blocked on one of the streets of the city." However, if we shorten this phrase by saying, "yesterday, traffic was blocked in the city," we will seriously distort the meaning of the expression. Considering all of the above, always try to grasp the context of the speech or text, without focusing your attention only on individual phrases.