The context of a language item is its adjacent language items. In the absence of context, it is often impossible to assign exact meaning to an item. A word or sentence in one context can have a very different meaning in another. It is sometimes necessary to distinguish between different kinds of context. On the one hand, there is the context of the accompanying text, sometimes called the co-text. The co-text of this sentence, for example, includes the sentences that precede and follow it, as well as
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