Text analysis in translation

Abstract

In its most general sense the word “context” means a set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular event, situation, etc. Contextual relationships can be defined in many ways. Each text and each passage partake of several contexts. Some of them are definable in formal, linguistic matters (interlinguistic contexts), others must be based on extralinguistic considerations (extralinguistic contexts). Contexts, then, must be defined at several conceptual levels, and contextual components can be further classified into various patterns. No wonder that in works on linguistics we come across such terms as “verbal context”, “cultural context”, “pragmatic context”, “stylistic context”, etc.