noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cultural context (=the ideas, customs etc of a particular place or time)
▪ the cultural context of Europe in the eighteenth century
historical context
▪ It is important to look at the novel in its historical context.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
broad
▪ In addition, she emphasises the broader historical context of political, technological and cultural change within which photography developed.
▪ General evolution takes place when the broader context itself changes, a process that is both unintentional and willed.
▪ Any work undertaken on an individual basis should always focus attention on the broader social context in which the individual lives.
▪ This is isolation and, in the broader context, the notion of what it means to be an island.
▪ Management control, in its broadest context, is the means by which an organization carries out its objectives effectively and efficiently.
▪ In a broader context, however, these variations have their limits.
▪ The sharp medical edge of her lecture would be blunted towards the end by placing the Black Death in its broader context.
▪ I had a broader context than most of the guys who just grew up in the street business.
cultural
▪ No one lives outside a cultural context.
▪ Unfortunately, the core teachings were set in cultural contexts that have been largely superseded.
▪ Even the modest proposal that literature should be read in its cultural context has large implications.
▪ Whatever cultural context is taken, there will be schemata.
▪ Again, these techniques are revealingly similar in widely different cultural contexts.
▪ The processes through which we can see texts functioning within a social and cultural context are problematic.
▪ A consideration of the cultural context of such concept formations is largely absent from his work.
▪ We decode messages in personal, social and cultural contexts.
different
▪ We talk in many different contexts about the need to protect young people from various vices in society.
▪ Ideas expressed at many different periods, or in many different contexts, have been assembled into a definitive world view.
▪ A second possibility is that social ranking of wife or housewife roles varies with different socio-economic contexts.
▪ This might include exploiting various language functions in different social contexts, as well as being able to participate in conversations.
▪ Reconciling the demands of different roles in different contexts is not without strain.
▪ Again, these techniques are revealingly similar in widely different cultural contexts.
▪ This quite different context allowed some observers of the city to communicate a view about the squalor of the Victorian legacy.
▪ In their long lives, Marx and Engels faced many different contexts and drew necessarily different tactical conclusions.
general
▪ To ask about details before establishing the general context is to approach from the wrong direction.
▪ The conclusion is obvious, that a structural-functional approach can not serve as a general context of explanation.
▪ One effect comes from the use of general knowledge about the world - we will call this a general context effect.
▪ I think the show was good because it covered a lot of ground and put a general feeling in context.
▪ These issues will be considered within the general context of political management.
▪ The effect of the six weeks time limit will be considered within the general context of exclusion of remedies.
▪ It was in this general context that the Unionist attitude to Marconi was set.
historical
▪ In addition, she emphasises the broader historical context of political, technological and cultural change within which photography developed.
▪ Examining Spenser and Ireland, therefore, raises more questions about relations between literary texts and historical contexts than it resolves.
▪ Both viewpoints are important in a historical context, but not in counselling.
▪ It is proposed to investigate these relationships in historical context applying comparative and quantitative methods.
▪ A hydraulic representation of his system dominated in which the historical evolution and context of Keynes's ideas could find no place.
▪ The historical context in which the evidence is acquired is irrelevant.
▪ Artefacts, works of art and historic buildings need to be considered in their historical and geographical context.
▪ In the case of attitudinal expressions, there are reversals, as rhetorical and historical contexts change.
other
▪ Such concerns are most apparent in the case of financial institutions but have also arisen in other contexts.
▪ They are not found in other contexts except in passing modulation.
▪ And if so, why are bees so thoroughly mindless in other contexts?
▪ This seemingly symbiotic link has been damaging to the more general applicability of these criteria in other contexts.
▪ In other contexts, the illuminative observation approach has been used by Oxford Polytechnic with more success.
▪ This threatens the other contexts, personal, political, historical, mentioned above.
▪ In other contexts, Terkel's great virtue is his ability to leave subjects rich and ravelled.
▪ Speech is heavily supported by gestures and other cues from context.
particular
▪ The powerful company is a rich company and the powerful business person is successful in that particular context.
▪ Personality Personality can be broadly defined as the propensities within an individual to act a certain way, given a particular context.
▪ Most writers have a range of shapes for a given letter depending upon the particular letter context in which it occurs.
▪ Case Study A case study provides students with opportunities for exercising problem solving and decision making skills in a particular context.
▪ They are useful in seeking to record the impact of a development or innovation in a particular context.
▪ This brings us back to the importance of considering the functions which explanations serve in particular contexts.
▪ In summary, interactionism focusses on the process of interaction in particular contexts.
▪ In terms of multimedia, however, there is a particular context to be kept in mind.
political
▪ As indicated at the beginning of this chapter, Gelman's plays treat contemporary social and economic themes in their political context.
▪ It should be seen as seven functional stages of the budgetary process which take place in a political or rational context.
▪ Nevertheless, during the 1980-1 events and their aftermath the political context was discussed from a number of perspectives.
▪ National histories and political contexts have to be taken into account.
▪ These manifestations should, however, be studied in their social and political contexts.
▪ This viewpoint must be set within the wider political context.
▪ To put matters in the political context of the time, one instance will suffice.
present
▪ However, in the present context, Mr. Philipson's arguments seem to me completely beside the point.
▪ Whatever it was once, it just seems wrong in its present context.
▪ This allows two further propositions in the present context.
▪ Moreover in the present context apart from factor rewards, output levels per firm in the manufacturing sector are also equalized.
▪ Within the present context, however, I shall concentrate on the question of the socialisation of production.
▪ Some work of the former kind altogether avoids social considerations, and passes out of our present context.
▪ But this resistance is weakened in the present context by allegations of misuse of power by the security services.
▪ In the present context, however, there are further provisions.
social
▪ However, the drug use of the interview group needs to be placed in its wider social context.
▪ I plan to consider these questions as they relate to the human need to create and maintain self-identity in a social context.
▪ You rarely find consideration of the social context of error, or of its significance in the growth of the writer.
▪ Individuals do not move through a smooth physical vacuum; they negotiate structured social contexts in company with other individuals.
▪ This may provide a social context for the glass.
▪ I have raised them here only in order to put paedophilia into some kind of social context.
▪ She creates her own sequence of images within the larger social context.
specific
▪ We stress that information only exhibits value when it is put to use in a specific context.
▪ Inevitably, New Historicist case studies of specific texts and specific contexts start to feel like metaphors for the whole culture.
▪ The influence of social networks was also acknowledged, as was the need to solve specific problems in specific contexts.
▪ And each time there is a specific context which itself frames and arguments the information about the individual.
▪ Furthermore, the items selected will usually have rich meanings within specific cultural contexts.
▪ They are actively presenting themselves as readers in this specific context.
wide
▪ But the Bible sets marriage in a wider context.
▪ It adds up to a picture of a man in a wider context that just as a fighter pilot.
▪ All organisations exist within some wider context and we would expect an organisation's culture to reflect this.
▪ The change depended upon changes in the wider context of controversy, which provoked the development of formerly implicit attitudinal aspects.
▪ And they Learn how to place their learning in a wider context.
▪ Such arrangements have to be seen in a wider context.
▪ Basically there is everything to say, for most roads are not understood at all, at least in their wider context.
■ VERB
consider
▪ It is now customary to consider reading in this context.
▪ The Committee did not, however, consider the crime in context.
▪ But when you consider this in the context of its well-weighted precision and speed, it gives little cause for complaint.
▪ However, there are a number of other issues to consider in this context 1.
▪ This will be considered in the context of wage and interest-rate equations.
▪ We may also incline to a little charity in considering the context of the four discoveries listed above.
▪ Before you answer this question, consider the context.
▪ This brings us to consider the broader context of industrial conflict.
occur
▪ While fights may occur in the context of displays of rivalry, the exhibition of the character in question is often sufficient.
▪ Tussive syncope, which usually occurs in the context of bronchitis, consists of loss of consciousness with vigorous coughing.
▪ It also occurs in the context of political protest.
▪ However, when these words occur within a meaningful context, they can easily be read and understood by humans.
place
▪ All the topics covered would have to be placed in context but there would be no, say, comparative studies.
▪ And recording artists are being placed in that same context.
▪ To explain the difference between the two structures, they are placed in a realistic context.
▪ This is essential reading for those seeking to place this horror in context and to understand its true meaning.
▪ Statements of harmony, as with statements of conflict, have to be placed in their context.
▪ An activated word might be defined as any word placed in a context such that it takes on emotional intensity.
▪ But their details are often still controversial and their meaning can only be appreciated by placing them in context.
▪ Even so, it has to be placed in context.
provide
▪ The flow of everyday life provides a context in which individual human consciousness usually operates.
▪ The Demonstration provides a meaningful context in which to introduce and practice these words.
▪ Scholars compare to provide context, make classifications, test hypotheses, and make predictions.
▪ The box set has given stature to popular and obscure artists, by providing context.
▪ They also provide the context for the emergence and multiplication of the better-paid and more specialised trades.
▪ A side benefit is that storing documents by date and time provides context.
▪ The units may be mixed and matched with topics already being delivered in early stages to provide a scientific context.
▪ All this provides an important context for Bush's claims of success.
put
▪ The opening of the letter A well-written business letter will start by putting its message into context.
▪ Sometimes, these topics are even handled by sensitive writers who put them into a context that invites debate and reflection.
▪ The groups were put in contexts suggestive in one case of euphoria, in the other of anger.
▪ It aims at amplifying the bare details of physical development and putting these into their context of emotional development and developmental psychology.
▪ The whole absurd situation needs putting into context.
▪ When the population is put in the context of land size, Britain emerges clearly as a crowded island.
▪ Sometimes it is necessary to take bits out because they need special coaching, but always put them back in context.
set
▪ Another housemaster in describing what he would ideally like to do also set it in the context of his sense of powerlessness.
▪ Unfortunately, the core teachings were set in cultural contexts that have been largely superseded.
▪ The results will be set in the context of a study of the history of planning theory and urban policy making.
▪ By the end of the year most managers were working to set the context within which their subordinates were working.
▪ Performance in education is complex, controversial and should properly be set in the context of long time scales.
▪ Prioritizing corporate crime has to be set in context.
▪ For even his negative comments about Feuerbach are set in the context of a generous appreciation of the latter's intentions.
▪ This little study, when set in the appropriate context, was turned into a short piece for a local history magazine.
understand
▪ And so, by means of analogies and comparisons, the foreign can be understood in the context of the homely and the familiar.
▪ The answer lay in an understanding of the larger context: modernity.
▪ Legal theories help us to understand and analyse this context in two ways.
▪ All of this contributes to a new understanding of our context as a dynamic community.
▪ To understand a text, especially a political text, it is necessary to understand its argumentative context.
▪ It is important that the springboard doctrine be understood in its context.
▪ The structure and relationships of the contemporary organs of government can be understood only in historical context.
▪ To decode photographs and advertising images more effectively, it is essential for us to understand their context.
use
▪ This paper exemplifies the main bottom-up approach used in this field, and also uses higher-level context.
▪ It is so used in this context.
▪ We stress that information only exhibits value when it is put to use in a specific context.
▪ We will consider how the term fairness is used in an adjudicative context.
▪ In doing so, I offer no rigid model to be used whatever the context.
▪ Black and white imagery has been used in other company contexts at moments of crisis.
▪ The exercises, like the explanations, use realistic contexts.
▪ The problem with adult learners is that they already have strategies for grammatical analysis and can efficiently use context in communication.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the wider context/issues/picture etc
▪ As ever, context is important, particularly the wider context of New Testament teaching.
▪ Both require standing back from the day-to-day running of the organisation and examining the wider picture.
▪ It is now necessary to situate these in the wider context of the social formation and in particular class structure.
▪ More broadly, it was placed in the wider context of the continuing ambitions of central government to control local independence.
▪ That fact must be put in the wider context.
▪ The change depended upon changes in the wider context of controversy, which provoked the development of formerly implicit attitudinal aspects.
▪ We would expect leaders at all levels to be aware of the wider context of their work.
▪ What interpretations of the wider issues should it consider?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ English words can have several meanings depending on context.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But all this takes place within a context of direction.
▪ In this context, a neutron star is effectively a single atomic nucleus.
▪ It also occurs in the context of political protest.
▪ It is recognised that in the Catholic school they will also be seen within the context of a wider and life-long catechesis.
▪ The eucharistic recall of the paschal mystery was simply inserted into this thank-offering context.
▪ The relationship between the sentence context and the target word varied.
▪ These must be developed in context, through experiences.
▪ This makes it absolutely clear that the early road and the drains belong in a mid to late second-century context.