Study On Context And Discourse Understanding

With the pragmatics development, the study of context have improved accordingly. But the scholars have not had the same ideas about the difinition of the context the classification of the context and the constitution of the context.The author considered that the context is the speech situation in which people conduct speech intercourse. The author considered that the language knowledge and the non-linguistic knowledge make up of the constitution of the context. The context and the discourse understanding are so closely associated that the understanding of discourse meaning depends on context. In specific context, the context can restrict and explain the discourse understanding. Also the context can infer the implication and complement the discourse meaning which is omitted. But the speech intercouse can' t always complete.Many times, people are different in period context, educational level, culture and social customs. This often make them misunderstanding and deviate the discourse understanding.