Situational Context

In this, you'll get Situational context, Components of situational context and Situational context and registers.

1. Situational Context

2. Context Context must take into consideration while studying discourse analysis. According to George Yule: “Context is the physical environment in which a word is used.” One common point of the context is the environment in which a discourse occurs.

3. Cont. Context refers to the setting in which communication takes place.  The context helps establish meaning and can influence what is said and how it is said. 

4. Situational Context Situational context, or context of situation, refers to the environment, time and place, etc. in which the discourse occurs, and also the relationship between the participants. It is one of the types of context that influence communication.  Deals with appropriate behavior and actions associated with the situation.

5. Cont. This is the immediate physical correspondence, the situation where the interaction is taking place at the moment of speaking. For example: People talking on the phone and making gestures with their hands or face. Go right or take left (by indicating).

6. Cont. The hearer and speaker do not share the situational context, so the gestures do not add meaning to the words.

7. Cont. Each atmosphere has its own set of rules for how to communicate. You would not talk in the same manner in a same situation. For example: At funeral or at wedding 

8. Components Situational context influences communication. Setting/place (home, school, play field, theater, etc.) Activity (lecture, discussion, free play, pair-share, party, etc.) Environment (materials, light, noise, furniture, temperature, number of people, etc.)

9. Cont. For example: In a classroom, a lecturer creates an imaginary situation to write a story i.e. robbery of a bank. Setting (Classroom) Activity (Writing) Environment (Material, no. of people)

10. Classroom as a situation

11. Situational context & register The Field-Tenor-Mode approach is used for text analysis and, simply how text produce Field (What) Tenor (Who) Mode (How)

12. Cont. Field (What): Field of discourse refers to the ongoing activity. Tenor (Who): Refers to the participants in a discourse, their relationships to each other, and their purposes. Mode (How): Mean of communication i.e. written or spoken

13. Conclusion The situational context is defined by the event itself; you communicate differently in different settings. You use differing types and styles of communication in different type of settings. Imagine using the same type of speech in different situations. This would not be appropriate at all.

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