indexicality

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subjectivity

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is the way we refer to the context of a remark or action to make sense of it.

indexicality'. This means simply that people make sense of a remark, sign or particular action by reference to the context in which it occurs... that is they index it to particular circumstances. . . .Thus for example, the answers given by the advisors in the counselling experiment made sense to the students only in the context of the experiment. The setting of the experiment, the information they were given about it and so on led them to accept the situation as authentic. (NET)

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indexicality