The phrase "a contextual background" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the circumstances or setting that provide context for a particular situation, event, or piece of information.
Example: "To fully understand the author's perspective, it is essential to consider a contextual background of the historical events that influenced their writing."
Alternatives: "a contextual framework" or "a situational context".
Providing a contextual background are 45 photographs of Edmondson and his environment by Edward Weston, Consuelo Kanaga and Louise Dahl-Wolfe.
The idea is to provide a contextual background to your paper, and to lay out your initial ideas, your motivation for the study, how you've approached your thesis or problem, and the findings you expect from its execution.
They are once more doing the kind of documentary work on the sources of and influences on literary works, providing a contextual background for the annotation, editing and interpretation of literature that for two generations of academic scholars had been relegated to irrelevance and was frowned upon if ever a PhD student dared venture in that direction.
Moreover, efforts to pass these discriminatory bills through the Knesset come against a contextual background of an escalating campaign by Israeli right-wingers to portray Israel's Arab community as a "demographic time bomb" and "a fifth column".
Our data, therefore, reflect the views of stakeholders with experience and a contextual background in the area and not of stakeholders who are naïve to Australian musculoskeletal MoCs.
Pseudoconditioning may arise when a primary reinforcer sets a contextual background and provokes unspecific behavioral responses to any events within this context [ 61].
Abnormal versions were manipulated in Photoshop (version 7.0, Adobe, USA) by superimposing a photo of an object onto a different contextual background such that the object was in the foreground and appeared against a background with which the object is not usually associated (abnormal conditions) (fig. 1).
Bold, carefully etched, full of telling details rendered against a rich contextual background, Finkelstein's beautifully written book makes compelling reading.
How is this different from water?—and walks readers through the ways in which a variety of agencies and individuals answered these questions, all the while pointing to foregoing and subsequent approaches, which provide a helpful contextual background.
The research ethics guidelines that were reviewed and a brief contextual background on their jurisdiction are presented in Additional file 1.
They assert that history's relationship with the "public future" lies in developing a longue-durée contextual background against which archival information, events, and sources can be interpreted.
