contextdiscursive
Contextdiscursive is a scholarly term for a framework that treats context and discourse as mutually constitutive. It holds that meaning arises within a network of situational, cultural, institutional, and historical factors, and that these factors are shaped by the discursive practices that traverse them. The term signals an integrated approach to analyzing how utterances, texts, and talk both reflect and help construct their contexts.
Origin and scope: contextdiscursive is a relatively recent neologism used in discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and critical
Core ideas: context is produced through discourse and simultaneously conditions interpretation. Researchers examine how power relations,
Methods and applications: studies typically employ critical discourse analysis, ethnography of communication, interviews, and corpus methods
Limitations: as a broad orientation, contextdiscursive risks vagueness unless clearly defined. Critics urge explicit criteria for