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OCR: Location, format, and audience make up the immediate context for an argument. But context also has broader focus -the larger cultural and historical stuff around an argument Who you are (your age your gender, your ethnicity how much money you make and so on) who your audi ence is and your shared cultural experience references or expectations alli inform how an argument shaped This cartoon for example woul Idn't make sense to you unless you're familiar with two levels of context -first, the Aesop fable about the tortoise and the hare and second, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, cartoon that first aired as TV series in 1987. Click on the button to the left for another exam ple of how context creates mean ing wouldn