Zusammenfassung der Ressource
MENTAL PROCESSES
- What is it?
- Processes "through which we organise our mental contact with the world"
- types
- perception
- encoded by verbs such as
- see, hear, feel, notice, taste ...
- cognition
- encoded by verbs such as
- know, understand, believe, recognise, think, doubt, remember,...
- affective
- encoded by verbs expressing
- positive affects
- like, love, please, delight
- negative affects
- dislike, hate, destest
- desiderative
- expressed by verbs such as
- want, desire, wish
- PARTICIPANTS INVOLVED IN THESE PROCESSES
- PHENOMENON
- conscious EXPERIENCER (SENSER)
- someone who sees, thinks, likes, dislikes or desires
- she is not an Agent, since there is not a voluntary action
- Characteristics
- encoded by stative verbs
- imperative forms are excluded
- non volitional action
- Reference: ANGELA DOWNING. ENGLISH GRAMMAR. A University Course.Third edition, 2015