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Non-acceptances are discussed in speech act theory, logic & conversation and conversation analysis with special reference to how context is accommodated. The results are systematized in the framework of plus/minus-validity claims based on the contextualization of Habermas’s theory of communicative actions [18], defined as minusvalidity claims anchored to an interactive tripartite system of objective, subjective and social worlds subdivided into further textual, interpersonal and interactional sub-systems.
Non-acceptances of the objective world are represented explicitly (syntactic, semantic negation), non-acceptances of the subjective world represented non-linearly (negative non-verbal behaviour), and nonacceptances of the social world explicitly and implicitly (denials, rejections, negative contextualization cues).
Context is both micro & institutional, and process & product. Minus-validity claims are not only calculated in a bottom-up manner with regard to their references to the three worlds, but also with regard to institutional contexts. Before this type of presupposed context may be rejected, it is re-created by being made explicit. Only then is it possible to reject and un-create it.
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Fetzer, A. (1999). Non-acceptances: Re- or Un-creating Context?. In: Bouquet, P., Benerecetti, M., Serafini, L., Brézillon, P., Castellani, F. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1688. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48315-2_11
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