The Functioning of Knowledge as a Context

Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, , course: Japanese Language & Literature Course, language: English, abstract: According to its characteristics, knowledge is divided into two subgroups named as Universal Knowledge and Individual Knowledge. Universal Knowledge is a kind of knowledge which is same everywhere and does not change according to the people's understanding wherever you go on earth. On the other hand, Individual Knowledge is the knowledge a person can know, experience or understand, which is not known by large groups of people. After making a distinction between the two types of knowledge, it has been discovered that both the Universal and Individual Knowledge can work as a context at the back of a sentence. However there are some differences between them.