Introduction: language in context studies Jesús Romero-Trillo; Part I. Language in Context: A Socio-Historical Perspective: 1. Conversation analysis John Heritage; 2. Context in historical linguistics Elizabeth Traugott; 3. Context in discourse analysis Cedric Deschrijver and Alexandra Georgakoupolou; Part II. Philosophical, Semantic and Grammatical Approaches to Context: 4. Philosophy of language and action theory Maria de Ponte, Kepa Korta and John Perry; 5. A functional approach to context Rebekah Wegener & Lise Fontaine; 6.

The grammar of incremental language production in context Lachlan Mackenzie; 7. Cognitive linguistics and context Dirk Geeraerts; Part III. Pragmatic Approaches to Context: 8. The role of context in Gricean and Neo-Gricean pragmatics Jacques Moeschler; 9. Sociopragmatics and context Sophia Marmaridou; 10. Natural semantic metalanguage and context Anna Gladkova; 11. Relevance theory and context Deirdre Wilson; 12. The interplay of linguistic, conceptual and encyclopedic knowledge in meaning construction and comprehension Istvan Kecskes; 13.

Corpus pragmatics Karin Aijmer; 14. Prosodic pragmatics in context Jesús Romero-Trillo and Yalda Sadeghi; Part IV. Applications of Context Studies: 15. Language learning and assessment in context Dale Koike and Elisa Gironzetti; 16. Linguistic creativity and humour in context Delia Chiaro; 17. Context in translation and interpreting studies Luis Pérez-González; 18. The role of context in clinical linguistics Louise Cummings; Part V. Advances in multi-modal and technological context-based research: 19.

Non-verbal communication and context: multi-modality in interaction Pauline Madella and Tim Wharton; 20. AI, human-robot interaction and natural language processing Ian McLoughlin and Nitin Indurkhya; 21. Social media and computer-mediated communication Francisco Yus.