"Referents" to Time, Place and Space..is "Context"...in Semiotic Language and Distance Learning and Teaching language/Margith Strand/ Fielding Graduate University

con·text (kntkst)
n.

1. The part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning.

2. The circumstances in which an event occurs; a setting.


[Middle English, composition, from Latin contextus, from past participle of contexere, to join together : com-, com- + texere, to weave; see teks- in Indo-European roots.]

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Place and Space are two of the variables which I have indicated, at least in thought, to comprise the Distance Education world (along with "time"). I feel that "place" and "space" are the definers of the context of the semiotically linguitic features of the course instructional world, also. If one looks at the definition of the term "context," one can see the "conjoinness" of the features which connect the word "meaning" the other definition of "context."

"Determines it meaning"...indicates that there is a time, place and space capacity to the setting...surroundings...of the "word environ"...i.e. meaning of the phrase or sentence.

This is where I will be proposing the idea of the term "code mobility" within the construction of a possible analytical format. Time, space and place variance of the dimensional parameters and conditions of the "contextual expressions" of the discourse of the online courses.

Humanism is "intentionality" and Constructivism is "self.."..connecting these two will be the indicator of the connectivity of the Distance Education world.