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Katrinarc Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary
Linguistics
Hi, can you help me with this extract? It belongs to a book on linguistics. I have to analize the meaning of the underlined words, and I find it difficult to realize what the author means:
"Slightly more interesting is the fact that a sentence can frame an event, affecting the way that people construe it, in addition to simply conveying who did what to whom. The preceding chapter teemed with examples: the choice of construction can determine wether listeners think of an event as causing water to move or causing a glass to become full."
"Slightly more interesting is the fact that a sentence can frame an event, affecting the way that people construe it, in addition to simply conveying who did what to whom. The preceding chapter teemed with examples: the choice of construction can determine wether listeners think of an event as causing water to move or causing a glass to become full."
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A sentence can put an event into a greater, created context and affect the way that people understand the event – through its choice of descriptive words, for instance.
- A sentence can put an event into a greater, created context and affect the way that people understand the event – through its choice of descriptive words, for instance.
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A sentence can put an event into a greater, created context and affect the way that people understand the event – through its choice of descriptive words, for instance.
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katrinarca sentence can frame an event, affecting the way that people construe itThere are many ways to look at an event, but because of the way it is constructed, a sentence can make you think about an event a certain way, focusing on a particular aspect of the event. In other words, a sentence is more than a recital of facts; it contains indi
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