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What is the role of context in understanding meaning?
What is the role of context in understanding meaning?
- It is irrelevant.
- It is important, but not essential.
- It is essential. (correct)
- It is only necessary in certain situations.
Can the same word have different meanings depending on the context?
Can the same word have different meanings depending on the context?
- Yes, it is common for a word to have different meanings depending on the context. (correct)
- It depends on the language being used
- No, a word always has the same meaning.
- Yes, but only in rare cases.
What is the nature of context in communication?
What is the nature of context in communication?
- It is implicit and requires interpretation. (correct)
- It is irrelevant to effective communication.
- It is only important in written communication.
- It is explicit and easy to identify.
How do we build meaning?
How do we build meaning?
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What is context?
What is context?
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What is the role of curiosity in exploring context?
What is the role of curiosity in exploring context?
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Study Notes
- Context is essential to understanding the meaning of something.
- The same word can have different meanings depending on the context.
- Context is implicit in the way we speak and write.
- We build meaning by associating ideas and understanding with an idea or question.
- Context is a complicated set of perspectives that inhabit entirely different systems of knowledge.
- Curiosity can explore existing context or create entirely new context.
- Engaging in a creative process involves creating new context.
- Learning from childhood is focused on embodying as much contextual information as possible.
- Existing context has to be researched, learned, explored, and internalized.
- Finding oneself in one particular context using the information and assumptions of a different context can be dangerous.
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