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Palinkasocsi Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary
Scriptal
Dear Forum Users,
In cognitive linguistics a 'script' is a:
schema which involves all the information the comprehender already has, for example, about restaurants: that one normally sits at a table with others, that the food is cooked and then brought to the table by a waiter, that the waiter gets the food from a ...
If I analyse a situation in terms of scripts, can it be a 'scriptal' (???) analysis? In other words, can I coin the adj. 'scriptal' from the n. 'script' in this sense?
Thank you.
Pal
In cognitive linguistics a 'script' is a:
schema which involves all the information the comprehender already has, for example, about restaurants: that one normally sits at a table with others, that the food is cooked and then brought to the table by a waiter, that the waiter gets the food from a ...
If I analyse a situation in terms of scripts, can it be a 'scriptal' (???) analysis? In other words, can I coin the adj. 'scriptal' from the n. 'script' in this sense?
Thank you.
Pal
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It might be used and understood within that discipline but I would not attempt to use it with general audiences.
- It might be used and understood within that discipline but I would not attempt to use it with general audiences.
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It might be used and understood within that discipline but I would not attempt to use it with general audiences.
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Palinkasocsican it be a 'scriptal' (???) analysis?I would not do that if I were you. I recommend the simpler 'script analysis'.
CJ
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