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5. Context in Different Domains
5.3. Shared biology
A third area of commonality is our shared biology. This may provide a shared experience of emotions, experience of inhabiting a body, experience of consciousness and other shared knowledge (e.g. basic language structure). These may be very important in a child's early development but are complicated and `masked' with cultural overlays in later life. However their relative constancy across humans and their pervasiveness may allow for studies of context arising from these commonalities in a way that is difficult with commonality based in social constructions. Apart from linguists who apply the concept of deep-structure, I do not know of any studies of context which focus in these biological areas*1.
The Pragmatic Roots of Context - Bruce Edmonds - 31 MAR 99
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