ANTHROPOCENTRISM IN EVENT REPRESENTATION: MENTAL MODELS AND DISCOURSE

ANTHROPOCENTRISM IN EVENT REPRESENTATION: MENTAL MODELS AND DISCOURSE

Author:  V.I. Zabotkina

Affiliation:  Russian State Humanities University

Abstract:  The paper concentrates on the role of anthropocentrism in event representation analyzed within the dichotomy “mental models – discourse”. The process of construing mental models of a particular event is analyzed in two stages: 1) multimodal perception of events (non-conceptual stage); 2) construing a new event model stored in short-term memory by analogy with the existing mental models stored in long-term memory. The emphases are on the analysis of such components of event mental models as participants/agents, action and relations between participants/entities of the event. The second part of the paper concentrates on the verbal representation of events in the discourse.

Keywords:  anthropocentrism, mental models, discourse, event representation.

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