All 3 Uses of
context
in
Oryx and Crake
- When dealing with indigenous peoples ... you must attempt to respect their traditions and confine your explanations to simple concepts that can be understood within the contexts of their belief systems.
p. 97..7 *contexts = settings or situations
- Sometimes it would appear to him in reveries, charged with mystery and hidden significance, a symbol free of all contexts.
p. 138..1contexts = the settings or situations in which things occur
- He must still have had hope, he must still have believed that the situation could be turned around, that someone would show up here in the future, someone in authority; that his words would have a meaning then, a context.†
p. 346..4
Definition:
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(context) the setting or situation in which something occurs