Kontekstlardagi

Kontekstlardagi is a term used in Uzbek linguistics to describe how the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences depends on their surrounding context. The form comes from kontekst (context) plus the plural possessive suffix -lari and the postpositional suffix -dagi, yielding “in the contexts” or “within contexts.” In analysis, kontekstlardagi refers to the phenomenon that interpretation varies with the linguistic and situational environment.

Contexts considered under kontekstlardagi include: the immediate linguistic context (the surrounding sentence or clause); the situational context (who is speaking, where, when, and why); the discourse context (topic, genre, and previous statements); and broader cultural or world knowledge. Understanding kontekstlardagi is essential for semantics and pragmatics, as it accounts for polysemy, deixis, reference, and implicature.

Examples show how context guides interpretation. For instance, a word with multiple senses may be disambiguated only through surrounding text and shared knowledge. Pronouns and demonstratives likewise depend on antecedents available within the relevant context.

Methodologically, researchers study kontekstlardagi through corpus analysis, discourse analysis, and pragmatic theory to examine how meaning shifts across genres, registers, or communicative goals. Applications appear in language teaching, lexicography, translation, and natural language processing, where modeling context improves interpretation and accuracy.

See also: pragmatics, semantics, deixis, polysemy, discourse analysis, contextualization.