Event representation

Bracha Nir

Table of contents

1.Introduction
2.The development of event representation
3.Event representation and linguistics
4.Event representation and event construal
5.Conclusion
References

Events are fundamental to human experience. As human beings, we conceptualize our experience of the world around us – as well as our internal sensations and experiences – in terms of events. What does your morning or evening look like? What do you do at work, with friends, with family? What is your preferred way of celebrating a birthday, and what is your least favorite thing to have happen? These and other situations or eventualities make the fabric of our daily life. We perceive them, we participate in them, we interpret them, and we can talk about them from various perspectives.

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