Blood pressure is usually expressed in terms of the systolic pressure (maximum during one heart beat) over diastolic pressure (minimum in between two heart beats) and is measured in millimeters of mercury , above the surrounding atmospheric pressure (considered to be zero for convenience).
social/organizational/cultural context. It sees words as symbols interpreted in context. Mead (1934) and Blumer (1972) stressed communication as symbolic interaction that created meaning and oneâs sense of both self and society. Discourse analysis is an extension and elaboration of the contextual perspective.
Edit 0 26 â¦. Definition. The concept of contextualization started with a group of scholars who believed that contexts are not pre-made and objective but rather created and shaped by language and text. One of the first scholars to define contextualization was John Gumperz. Gumperz (1982) defines contextualization in relation to discourse analysis as the process through which participants in a conversation âforeground or make relevant certain aspects of background knowledge and underplay othersâ (p. 131).