A form of construal in which there is explicit dependence on the ground and thus the context of the utterance, including participants, time of the speech event and so on. The greater the attention upon the ground, the greater the objectivity of construal.

Speaker and hearer are usually subjectively construed or 'off-stage', and only become objectively construed or 'on-stage' when linguistically profiled by expressions such as I or you. For example, if Max utters the first person pronoun I, he places himself in the foreground as an object of perception. In this way, the speaker is objectified, giving rise to objective construal.