A Study on Construction of Subjective Psychological Context
Context,or language environment,plays an important part in text production and understanding,which has been drawing attention from scholars of different fields of study such as semanticists,pragmaticists,anthropologists,philosophers and cognitive theorists.Based on the discussion of functional linguistic context theory represented by Halliday,the subjective psychological context is divided into three variables: cognition,emotion and intention,which to some extent remedies the disadvantages of Halliday's context theory.By the analysis of individual psychological phenomena and characteristics in the course of interpersonal communications and the mode of utterance development,it is discovered that people can construct and understand utterances through the filtration of context of situation and culture by psychological context,both of which contribute to the changes and development of language and discourse.