Types of Situations and Their Event Structure

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10.2991/tphd-18.2019.21How to use a DOI?

Keywords

semantics; situation; event; actant; frame

Abstract

In the paper the concept of "situation" in a linguistic context is discusses, and is defined as a complex of interrelated events occurring in a particular place and time. The difference between situations and events is explained, thus events are considered as part of the situation. The event structure of the situation is proposed, which includes the composition of its participants (actants) and their role in the interaction that binds them in a given situation, as well as the circonstants. With the help of the frame/script description, a characteristic of such class of situations as a situation of confrontation is proposed.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Victoria Dobrova
AU  - Polina Labzina
AU  - Natalia Ageenko
AU  - Svetlana Menshenina
PY  - 2019/04
DA  - 2019/04
TI  - Types of Situations and Their Event Structure
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference "Topical Problems of Philology and Didactics: Interdisciplinary Approach in Humanities and Social Sciences" (TPHD 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 103
EP  - 107
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/tphd-18.2019.21
DO  - 10.2991/tphd-18.2019.21
ID  - Dobrova2019/04
ER  -