Tugas Discourse Analisis "Context and Situation"

The role of context in interpretation Features of context Consider two invented scenarios in which an identical utterance is produced by two distinct speakers.

(a)  Speaker : a young mother, hearer: her mother-in-law, place: park, by a duck pond, time: sunny afternoon in September 1962. They are watching the young mother's two-year-old son chasing ducks and the mother-in-law has just remarked that her son, the child's father, was rather backward at this age. The young mother says:

(b)  I do think Adam's quick speaker: a student, hearers: a set of students, place: sitting round a coffee table in the refectory, time: evening in March 1980. John, one of the group, has just told a joke. Everyone laughs except Adam. Then Adam laughs.

One of the students says : I do think Adam's quick. Is it possible to determine in any principled way what aspects of context of situation are relevant to these different interpretations f the same 'utterance' on two occasions? J. R. Firth (regarded by many as the founder of modern British linguistics) remarked :
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