Structuralsemantic varieties of macro-propositions of the frame «armed collision»

Abstract

The article presents the results of the study of macropropositions representing the frame ARMED COLLISION in the news and analytical Internet discourse. The frame ARMED COLLISION is considered as a stable mental model of an event during which two or more parties come into contact with the use of weapons; armed conflict is limited in scope (as opposed to full-scale war), as well as territorially and temporally. It has been established that when describing the semantic-syntactic structures representing a frame in a text, the frame should be considered as a cognitive structure of a propositional nature: the main units of storage of semantic data in it are propositions that reflect the main actions and processes included in our standard ideas about typical situations. in real, virtual and imaginary reality. In the course of the study, while studying the syntactic structure and content of sentences representing the ARMED COLLISION frame in the texts of analytical and news articles, it was also found that the most significant and stable differences between the macropropositions of the studied frame are determined by the nature of the predicates in these structures, which is reflected in the classification of propositions. In the course of the study, the following structural-semantic types of macropropositions of the ARMED COLLISION frame were identified: macropropositions with existential predicates of a holistic event, macropropositions with a predicate with a phase value, macropropositions with a hypothetical event predicate, and quasi-macropropositions. The study made it possible to confirm the thesis existing in linguistics that the use of one or another macroproposition to update the frame ARMED COLLISION in the text is due to a number of factors of a linguopragmatic, cognitive-linguistic and structural-linguistic nature. In particular, linguo-pragmatic grounds are the main factor in choosing a type of macroproposition in the case when the author of the text aims to focus the attention of a potential addressee either on the very fact of an ARMED COLLISION or on the fact of participation of certain parties in it.

Keywords

• frame macroproposition
• semantic-syntactic structures
• predicate
• nuclear proposition
• first term
• semantic case