Answer the following questions. Your answers should be clear and short.What are contextual clues? Guess the meaning of the word underlined in the following sentence and tell what contextual clues have helped you in arriving at the meaning. (a) Perhaps the most startling theory to come out of kinesics, the study of body movement, was suggested by Professor Birdwhistell. (b) It's just one more incredible result of the development of microprocessors — those tiny parts of a computer commonly known as "silicon chips".
CONTEXT MAY PROVE EXTREMELY VALUABLE IN GUESSING THE MEANINGS OF NEW WORDS. IN MANY CASES, WHEN A NEW WORD (THOUGHT TO BE) APPEARS FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE AUTHOR GENERALLY MANAGES TO GIVE HINTS WHICH MIGHT HELP THE READERS TO GRASP THE CONCEPT OR UNDERSTAND THE IDEA. THESE ARE CALLED CONTEXTUAL CLUES.
(A) DEFINITION: THE STUDY OF BODY MOVEMENT.
(B) EXPLANATION: THOSE TINY PARTS OF A COMPUTER COMMONLY KNOWN AS "SILICON CHIPS."
