Convey_importance

Definition:

Through a Message, a Speaker (sometimes encoded metonymically by a Medium) communicates the relative importance of the state of affairs denoted by the Message.

Reid EMPHASIZED that he and Dean meet every month.

Above all , Mr Tsongas STRESSED the need for his message to be heard.

Professor Perkin has STRESSED how favourable Britain 's situation was .

The courts have repeatedly STRESSED that the making of an order is discretionary.

"The whole Muslim society should respect these rights," he STRESSED.

The panelists STRESSED to an audience of about 100 at North Dakota State University's Memorial Union that people of different religions in this community need to talk - and find out they're not all that different.

FEs:

Core:

Medium [Medium]
The physical or abstract setting in which the Message is conveyed.
       The report EMPHASIZED that Iraq's unwillingness to cooperate represents a serious problem for the progress of this work.
 

Message [Msg]
Semantic Type
Message
The proposition whose denotation the Speaker presents as important.
       He EMPHASIZED to me that my words will go down in history and that this poem has made a difference in our world.
 

Speaker [spe]
Semantic Type
Sentient
The person who uses language in the written or spoken modality to convey a Message to another person.
       Juhl EMPHASIZED the importance of UPMC System investments, stating that their contribution to the school's funds had tripled in recent years.
 
Non-Core:
Addressee [Add]
Semantic Type
Sentient
The Addressee is the audience to which the Speaker communicates the Message.
       Pastor Host EMPHASIZED to him that as you study a passage, a theme develops from the text.
 

Circumstances []
Circumstances describe the state of the world (at a particular time and place) which is specifically independent of the event itself and any of its participants.

Degree [deg]
Semantic Type
Degree
The degree of importance that the Speaker conveys the Message's denotation as having.
       The need to understand design is often heavily STRESSED during conversations or articles about desktop publishing .
 

Event_description []
In general, this FE is used for phrases that describe the clause of the target as a whole.

Frequency []
This frame element is defined as the number of times an event occurs per some unit of time. A Frequency expression answers the question how often.

Iteration [ite]
The frame element Iteration is used for expressions that indicate the number of times the Speaker conveys a Message whose denotation they present as an important fact to be aware of.
       During Chen's telephone call with Soong, Hsieh said at a press conference, Soong EMPHASIZED multiple times his commitment to the 10-point consensus.
 

Manner [Manr]
Semantic Type
Manner
Any description of the event (or state) which is not covered by more specific FEs, in particular secondary effects (loudly), general descriptions comparing events (the same way), and salient characteristics of an Agent that also affect the action (deliberately, eagerly, carefully).
       You will note above that I have deliberately STRESSED our ability as mental health professional to make a determination of current suicide risk.
 

Means [Mns]
Semantic Type
State_of_affairs
The Means by which the Speaker communicates the importance of the state of affairs denoted by the Message.
       Mr. Rose STRESSED this by pointing out that the latest offender had been fined over $5000.
 

Particular Iteration []
Expressions marked with this extra-thematic FE modify a non-iterative use of the target, and indicate that it is conceived as embedded within an iterated series of similar events or states. In addition, most expressions of Particular_iteration indicate which instance of the series is being referred to.

Period of iterations []
This FE is minimally distinct from Duration and Duration_of final_state in that the clause described is conveyed to be iterative. Period_of_iterations can co-occur with either the peripheral FE Duration or the extra-thematic FE Duration_of_final_state (although these cannot occur together).

Place [pla]
Semantic Type
Locative_relation
The location where the Speaker delivers the Message.
       Putin STRESSED in Beijing that Russia does not favor independence for Taiwan.
 

Time [tim]
Semantic Type
Time
The time at which the Speaker communicates a Message.
       However, Cockerill STRESSED last week that he had had many meetings about these obvious synergies and that he had pursued these aggressively.
 

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Lexical Units

enfatizar.v, hacer_hincapiƩ.v, poner_de_relieve.v, recalcar.v, subrayar.v

Created by josef on Thu Jul 07 16:35:02 CEST 2005