Abstract
A large number of functional linguists over the years, e.g. Bühler (1934), Halliday (1975), have stressed the particular importance of the context of situation as an interpretative framework for language use, the context of situation being an abstract construct consisting of the relevant features of the participants, the relevant objects and the effect of the verbal action (Firth 1950; Monaghan 1979). It is still today important to any study of the internal features of language structure, such as the properties of grammar and phonology, where most Computational Linguistics has concentrated. In the context of CSCW it allows the design of cooperative systems which match the actual activities that workers undertake.
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In an analysed corpus of 20,510 words, the word ‘the’ occurs 1401 times.
The notion of ‘lexically unfulfilled’ items which serve to organize the text is dealt with in detail in Monaghan (1985).
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Cheepen, C., Monaghan, J. (1996). Linguistics and Task Analysis in Computer Supported Cooperative Work. In: Connolly, J.H., Pemberton, L. (eds) Linguistic Concepts and Methods in CSCW. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3586-9_2
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