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English translation: contextlessness

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Dutch term or phrase:	kaderloosheid
English translation:	contextlessness
Entered by:	Michael Beijer

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13:53 Nov 10, 2010

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Dutch term or phrase: kaderloosheid

Hoe zouden jullie vertalen: kaderloosheid? Wel een lastige.. :)

gabriel self

contextlessness

Explanation:
Just noticed that "contextless" in defined in my OED as,

"Lacking a context.
1936 Mind XLV. 304 Lord Russell adduces ‘it rained in London on January 1, 1066’. This is, so far, only the formal truth-claim of a contextless ‘proposition’ about an historical event. 1965 Punch 13 Oct. 551/1 They are like remembered scenes or remarks that drift into an idling mind, mattering obscurely to the thinker but contextless to anyone else. 1969 P. Dickinson Pride of Heroes 72 The seemingly contextless flurry of action+locked itself into a pattern of violence."

I wonder if "contextlessness" is an official word. Hmm. I like the sound of it though.

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Note added at 19 mins (2010-11-10 14:12:53 GMT)
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"On the other hand, it is worth emphasising that with the FTA view - anyy version of the FTA view - we do not define anything in terms of contextlessness." (from: Intonational phonology, by D. Robert Ladd)

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Note added at 24 mins (2010-11-10 14:17:22 GMT)
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"We continue to make reference to the communicative intention of the speaker and the context in which the utterance is used: the broad focus pattern five FRANCS is appropriate in a wide range of contexts, while the ‘narrow focus’ pattern FIVE francs is appropriate only in very few contexts, but nothing depends on any assumption of ‘contextlessness’." (http://lrc.ucsc.edu/events/prig/ladd_2008_ch6_sentence_stres...