You begin to infer a context for the text, for instance, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved: Who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.

例如，你可以通过判定文本涉及何种类型的语言情景，来推测文章的语境：是谁在说话，对谁说话，何时何地。

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Remember that text matters less than context.

记住语境比文字更重要。

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You already had this move toward history and reading the text in historical context in the humanist movement and the Renaissance.

已经在历史上迈出一大步了，在人文主义运动和文艺复兴时，提倡在历史背景上解读经文。

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We finished Black Boy last time, and one of the big questions coming out of my discussion of that autobiography is: how do you manage the question of context in reading a novel or an autobiography--in reading any text?

我们上次讲完了《黑孩子》,在关于那部自传的讨论中随之而来,的一个重要问题是：,当你在读小说、自传或者其他文本时,怎么处理上下文？

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Let's try and find a way to enter into the original spirit of what this piece was about, to play with the tension between an 18th-century text and a 21st-century context.

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