At 09:23 AM 6/11/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>(is "background" a synomym for "context" here?).
My reading of M. Cole tells me that they're not synonymous. Cole looks at
the etymology of context and finds it's rooted in the idea of weaving,
suggesting that context is connected to that which it contextualizes,
rather than being a separate backdrop.
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