On the Cultural Aspects of Text and Context in the Glottodidactic Process of L2 Learners
On the Cultural Aspects of Text and Context in the Glottodidactic Process of L2 Learners

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses various culture-connected forms of context that can be inferred froma text in the moment it is being dealt with. While presenting mutual counter-dependenciesof language and culture the paper offers an analysis of culture-bound aspects of context asthey are found to have been functioning from the point of view of one’s text comprehension.This is where the cognitive theory of language as offered by Ronald Langacker [2003] isbriefly discussed and mutual forms of correspondence between the text-existing language andthe context which comes out as a symbolic unit to be recognized as the cognitive basis ofthe (con)text-connected reality for the readers are analyzed. Finally, the paper discusses theforms of influence of various culture-connected issues of reasoning upon the linguistic formsof cognitive illustration of the approach towards the description of local environment as theyare generally observed in different forms of L2 communication.

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