Ä	the specific circumstances within which an action or an event takes place;
Ä	the background against which communication occurs, including the relevant factual information, the aims and interests of the actors, and the presupposition(s) giving the communication its point;
Ä	those events and processes characterizing a particular situation and having an impact on actors’ thinking and behaviour.

In language “context” concerns the elucidating role played by and meaning which surrounding words and phrases impart to a particular word or passage.