فاعلية السياق و حيز المعنى عند ستيفن أولمان

Abstract EN

This paper intends to conceptually approach Stephen Ullmann’s notion about the context and its contribution to the spatial-temporal aspects related meaning, mentally present within the semantic frame.

The present study looks also at the influence of both the context and meaning in directing the message of the discourse.

The approach will be hence applied according to the context theory presented in his book entitled “The Role of the Word in the Language".

The study tackles the topic descriptively through analyzing his views on the psychological meaning influenced by the emotional context, the meaning zone, the alternative, and multiple meanings as well as the subjection of meaning to the rule of gradual diminishing of meaning.

Subsequently, a methodology can be focused to subsequently approach the subject of the study and the additions that he put forward as they are the reason in their eventual progress in comparison with what has been presented by Firth as its founder.

The study concludes with the following: Ullman had established a theory of context that explains actual actions in dealing with meaning.

He had also presented a theory that covers the needs of researchers among the scholars of semantics, discourse analysis and other branches of linguistics.

His personal touch is in the additions he made that contributed to the completion of the theory.

This was when he establishes the valuable role of the emotional context that comprises psychological meanings that are charged with the emotions of the text producer and its receivers.

He also gave psychological orientation to meaning that would enable the context of discourse to incline to in its orientation albeit the biases that occupies the realm of meaning as imposed by the language use as it can be exposed on some occasions to the rule of eventual diminishing that would lose the emotional charge while in the process of producing the text.