Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. Introduction (by Finkbeiner, Rita); 3. Part I. Linguistic perspectives on context; 4. What is a context?: Theoretical and empirical evidence (by Meibauer, Jorg); 5. Context in neurolinguistics: Time-course data from electrophysiology (by Schumacher, Petra B.); 6. Theorising context: The case of clinical pragmatics (by Cummings, Louise); 7. Context: Gricean intentions vs. two-dimensional semantics (by Jaszczolt, Katarzyna M.); 8. Contexts in interaction: Relating pragmatic wastebaskets (by Fetzer, Anita); 9. What's non-linguistic visual context?: A view from language comprehension (by Knoeferle, Pia); 10. Part II.Case studies on context; 11. Emergent contexts: Observations on the context-creative power of idioms (by Finkbeiner, Rita); 12. The role of context in interpreting implicit meaning aspects (by Borjesson, Kristin); 13. Contextually enriched argument linking (by Klein, Udo); 14. Modelling context within a constraint-based account of quantifier usage (by Cummins, Chris); 15. Subject and name index