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A Textual Study of Context of Personal Pronouns and Adverbs in
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

Fadi Butrus K Habash, M.A.

Abstract

Context is one of the main topics of Philology. It has been studied in language, criticism, interpretation, etc. It has attracted the attention of linguists, critics, and philologists in the twentieth century. The present research is a textual study of context of personal pronouns and adverbs of time and place in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. It falls in three sections.

The first section tackles context, its referential function, and its uses in semiotics and semantics. The second section analyzes context types and function in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” with the reference to the personal pronouns and adverbs of time and place. The third section deals with the conclusion of the research. The most important result is that context determines the referentiality of pronouns and adverbs of time and place in Coleridge’s poem.

1. Introduction – Defining Context

Context has preoccupied linguists and critics in the recent years. Etymologically speaking, it is derived from two Latin words "Con" and "textus", "Con" means "With" and "textus" means "tissue". "It is the setting of a word, phrase, etc., among the surrounding words, phrases, etc., and used for explaining the meaning of the word, phrase, etc." (www.dictionary.com). Crystal clarifies the concept of context in the following words: "It denotes specific parts of an utterance near to a Unit which is the object of linguists’ attention. Context determines the occurrence of a Unit, Like a Sound or Word" (Crystal 71). Peter Childs and Roger Fowler define context from the literary point of view as: “‘The meaning of a word is its use in the language’…. ‘The interpretation of an utterance is dependent upon a knowledge of the contexts within which it occurs’” (33-4).

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Fadi Butrus K Habash, M.A.
Assistant Lecturer
Department of English
College of Education
University of Mosul
Iraq
fadihabash@gmail.com
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