jective semantic features on the basis of theoretical considerations, a more practical and empirical path should be pursued. For example, one can ask language users to describe what is going on in their minds when they produce and understand words and sentences. As experiments have shown, people will not only state that, for instance, a car has a box-like shape, that it has wheels, doors, and windows, that it is driven by an engine and equipped with a steering wheel and brakes. It will also be mentioned that a car is comfortable and fast, that it offers mobility, independence and perhaps social status. Some people may connect the notion of car with their first love affair, or with injury if they were once involved in an accident. By adding these attributes, people include associations and impressions which are part of their experience. These attributes collected from laypersons seem to reflect the way we perceive the world around us and interact with it.cognitive approach is concerned with the selection and arrangement of the information that is expressed. For example, the sentence The car crashed into the tree might be a description of the circumstances that led to the car's breakdown. This sentence seems to describe the situation in a fairly natural way. In comparison, other ways of relating the accident such as The tree was hit by the car seem somehow strange and unnatural. The reason is that the moving car is the most interesting and prominent aspect of the whole situation and, therefore we tend to begin the sentence with the noun phrase the car. The selection of clause subject is determined by the different degrees of prominence carried by the elements involved in a situation. This prominence is not just reflected in the selection of the subject as opposed to the object and the adverbials of a clause, but there are also many other applications of what may be called the prominence view of linguistic structures.prominence view provides one explanation of how the information in a clause is selected and arranged. An alternative approach is based on the assumption that what we actually express reflects which parts of an event attract our attention, and it can therefore be called the attentional view. br/>
2. WHAT FRAME ANALYSIS IS
The main descriptive devices of frame analysis are the notions of frame and perspective .
The notion of frame was introduced into linguistics by Charles Fillmore in the middle of the 1970s. We will look at his classic example of the 'commercial event' frame.start with, Ch. Fillmore considers the aspects of the situation described by the English verb buy. In the initial state, a person A owns money and another person or institution D owns some goods that A wants to have. Taking for granted that the two participants come to an ...
