Epistemic Image-Schemata of Event Construal in Popular Science Film Discourse: a Multimodal Analysis

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The article advances the multimodal analysis of events in the discourse of science documentaries in English. Three event types (environmental events, human-environment interaction events, and interpersonal events) are analysed with the help of image-schemata, which helps identify the epistemic characteristics of events.

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Nare Armeni Ovagimian

Moscow State Linguistic University

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Email: n.ovagimian@linguanet.ru

Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Faculty of Translation and Interpreting

Russian Federation

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