Frame


Name (Russian) Говорить о теме
Description (Russian)
Name (English) Speak_on_topic
Description (English) A Speaker addresses an Audience on a particular Topic. The Audience is generally passive, although for many types of address (including academic talks and press conferences), a discussion or question-answer period is virtually always required.
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Roles in frames
Role Description (Russian) Description (English) Is mandatory Concepts
Audience : Аудитория The person or persons to whom the Speaker delivers their text.
Speaker : Оратор The person who orally delivers a text about a Topic to a passive Audience.
Topic : Тема What the text that the Speaker produces is about.
Explanation : Объяснение Denotes a proposition from which the main clause (headed by the target) logically followes. This often means that the Explanation causes the complaint, but not in all cases. In particular, there are cases when the connection is a bit weaker than normal for causation. In these instances, cause is mediated by some actor responding in a complex way to the situation. Such cases are not paraphrasable in the language of direct causation.
Manner : Манера The Manner is a description of the Speaker's speech.
Medium : Среда This frame element is the Medium through which the Speaker communicates.
Occasion : Случай The Occasion is the reason a public statement is given.
Place : Место The Place describes the location where the speaking occurs.
Time : Время The Time describes when the speaking occurs.