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comparative more contextualist, superlative most contextualist
Of, pertaining to, or supporting contextualism examples
plural contextualists
A proponent of contextualism, or the importance of context. quotations examples
He is more of a contextualist, believing that “letters are fluid, that they change with time and circumstance — the entire word is more important than a single letter, and its form can fluctuate.”
2007 April 29, Christopher Gray, “A Man Who Minds His P’s and Q’s”, in New York Times
(pragmatics) One who believes that scalar implicatures arise from contextual inference, not from a default association with a word. examples