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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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- "pair," or "pear," context usually makes the meaning clear.†
Chpt 3 *
- "Every word must be placed in context," she reminded us each day at the end of our lesson.†
Chpt 7in context = with consideration of surrounding setting and conditions
- Then, over time, the women of that family invented new phonetic characters, which they grew to understand from context, just as you girls are learning to do right now But these are the kinds of particulars that men would care about.†
Chpt 7
- Women's writing is something we pick up as girls, and we rely on context to coax meaning.†
Chpt 13
- I had made the greatest mistake for a woman literate in nu shu: I had not considered texture, context, and shades of meaning.†
Chpt 18
Definitions:
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(1)
(context) the setting or situation in which something occurs
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)