CONTEXTUAL


Meaning of CONTEXTUAL in English

adjective

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■ NOUN

assumption

For example, the hearer may be expected to access a range of contextual assumptions about the effort of running up hills.

That is, the reformulation draws the hearer's attention to the range of contextual assumptions which distinguish sprinting from ordinary running.

However, there is no specific set of contextual assumptions which the hearer is expected to supply.

factor

What is at issue is the way different uses of language realize the complementary relationship between linguistic resources and contextual factors .

It alerts one to the importance of contextual factors such as those relating to the institution's regulations, resources and ethos.

One further contextual factor had an important bearing on this analysis.

We need now to examine the role of contextual factors directly and in more detail.

It will be evident that the Pearce-Hall theory finds it difficult to deal with the effects of contextual factors .

information

Subjects were given varying amounts of contextual information .

All the contextual information is lost.

The only way for correct recognition to be achieved in such situations is by the use of additional contextual information .

Human readers usually have little difficulty with most types of ambiguity, since they can effortlessly apply a variety of contextual information .

These various approaches have a number of problems, and it was established that contextual information is necessary in addition to a pattern recogniser.

Three approaches are generally considered for the application of contextual information in the field of text recognition.

It has been established that contextual information is necessary in addition to a pattern recogniser.

This is more than skills because the total expertise will include also rules, knowledge and contextual information .

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contextual information

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Again, we see the surprisingly pervasive role that presumptions of contextual appropriateness play in successful communication.

In this respect, the basic criterion for normality is not actual occurrence but contextual plausibility.

Notice that the principle of contextual plausibility allows legitimacy to expressions which arise in the contrived contexts of the classroom.

The anthropological excursion which they undertook was there to show the arbitrariness, the contextual , relative nature of these concepts.

They indicate the relationship of utterances in the mind or in the world and are thus in a way contextual .

This would constitute information - data plus a contextual framework allowing a larger picture to be revealed.

Underlying these questions are contextual issues of relevance and motivation.

We choose the most likely meaning for it from the world, and in this case the meaning is contextual .

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