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Staged Events

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Title

Staged Events

Contributor

Miriam van Staden
Gunter Senft
N.J. Enfield
Juergen Bohnemeyer

Country

Netherlands

Genre

Experiment or task

Format

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Persistent Identifier

https://hdl.handle.net/1839/becc2150-e760-4270-aa0b-481511f88f1b

Description

The term “event” is a controversial concept, and the “same” activity or situation can be linguistically encoded in many different ways. The aim of this task is to explore features of event representation in the language of study, in particular, multi-verb constructions, event typicality, and event complexity. The task consists of a description and recollection task using film stimuli, and a subsequent re-enactment of certain scenes by other participants on the basis of these descriptions. The first part of the task collects elaborate and concise descriptions of complex events in order to examine how these are segmented into macro-events, what kind of information is expressed, and how the information is ordered. The re-enactment task is designed to examine what features of the scenes are stereotypically implied.
Additional info: Volume 2001, filed under Event Representation. Tags: video clips
How to cite this resource:
Van Staden, M., Senft, G., Enfield, N. J., & Bohnemeyer, J. (2001). Staged events. In S. C. Levinson, & N. J. Enfield (Eds.), Manual for the field season 2001 (pp. 115-125). Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. doi:10.17617/2.874668.

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Miriam van Staden, Gunter Senft, N.J. Enfield, and Juergen Bohnemeyer. (2001). Item "Staged Events" in collection "Field Manuals". The Language Archive. https://hdl.handle.net/1839/becc2150-e760-4270-aa0b-481511f88f1b. (Accessed 2023-09-29)

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