Context
Context is part of a text that gives it a full or more visible meaning than if it were read separately. The context of any statement may be understood from immediately neighboring signs, any part of the text, or the biographical, social, cultural, and historical circumstances in which it is made. The example of irony shows how a statement's meaning can wholly change if you know its context [Baldick, p. 50].
Context refers to particular parts of an utterance (or text) near the unit in the center of attention. The usual sense of the term context is related to the process when someone contextualizes to clarify the meaning intended. Contextualization is the providing of context. Some researchers suggest that words have meaning only when seen in context [Crystal, p. 108].
Context refers to the part of an utterance in which a word or group of words is used or the circumstances in which a word is used. The context is often regarded as indispensable to the meaning of words. In literature, context is also related to the historical and social circumstances in which a text was written [Quinn, p. 97].
⠀ Chris Baldick. (2015). The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
⠀ Quinn Edward. (2006). A dictionary of literary and thematic terms. New-York: Infobase Publishing.