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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Теория языка. Семиотика. Семантика</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2299</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2411-1236</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">41806</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2299-2024-15-3-664-683</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">HLEXET</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>DISCURSIVE LINGUISTICS</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ДИСКУРСИВНАЯ ЛИНГВИСТИКА</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Event Construal through Spatial Relations in Science Documentaries: Language and Image</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Конструирование событий через призму пространственных отношений в научно-популярном кино: язык и изображение</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1981-0051</contrib-id><contrib-id contrib-id-type="spin">2035-7040</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Ovagimian</surname><given-names>Nare A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Овагимян</surname><given-names>Наре Армени</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Senior Lecturer at the Department of English, Faculty of Translation and Interpreting</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>старший преподаватель кафедры английского языка переводческого факультета</p></bio><email>n.ovagimian@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7215-0604</contrib-id><contrib-id contrib-id-type="scopus">56642747500</contrib-id><contrib-id contrib-id-type="researcherid">AAB-79892019</contrib-id><contrib-id contrib-id-type="spin">4419-0090</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Kiose</surname><given-names>Maria I.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Киосе</surname><given-names>Мария Ивановна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Leading Researcher; Laboratory for multichannel communication, Institute of Linguistics, RAS</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доктор филологических наук, доцент, главный научный сотрудник Центра Cоциокогнитивных исследований дискурса Московского государственного лингвистического университета; ведущий научный сотрудник Лаборатории мультиканальной коммуникации Института языкознания РАН</p></bio><email>maria_kiose@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Moscow State Linguistic University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Московский государственный лингвистический университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Institute of Linguistics RAS</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Институт языкознания РАН</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2024-12-03" publication-format="electronic"><day>03</day><month>12</month><year>2024</year></pub-date><volume>15</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 15, NO3 (2024)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 15, №3 (2024)</issue-title><fpage>664</fpage><lpage>683</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2024-12-04"><day>04</day><month>12</month><year>2024</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2024, Ovagimian N.A., Kiose M.I.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2024, Овагимян Н.А., Киосе М.И.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2024</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Ovagimian N.A., Kiose M.I.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Овагимян Н.А., Киосе М.И.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/41806">https://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/41806</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Information construal in cinematic discourse employs different semiotic modes; meanwhile, their variance is yet to be explored. The study is aimed at exploring spatial event construal in the language and image modes of science documentaries. We hypothesise that three major event types - environmental events, human-environment interaction events and interpersonal interaction events - employ different spatial construal patterns in language and image, which results from mode allowances and constraints. To verify the hypothesis, we use spatial image schema topology while identifying the image schemas in the lexical and grammatical structure of language and in the layout of the objects, the manner of their movement and interaction in image. The research data include 353 events in single clauses and in shots extracted from two English-language science documentaries. The results show the prevalence of the source-path-goal schema in both semiotic modes, which consequently prevents it from differentiating between event types both within and across the modes. The schemas scale, straight, and near-far display a tendency to differentiate between events; however, no significant distinctions were observed, presumably due to the ontological nature of events as well as the semiotic characteristics of the modes. Additionally, the study reveals that spatial construal of events can follow parallel alignment, commonly with the schemas source-path-goal, contact, near-far, and complementary alignment with the schemas centre-periphery, scale, up-down, front-back, straight, left-right, which reflects a complex nature of inter-semiotic relations in cinematic discourse. The findings of the article contribute to the understanding of event construal in the multimodal discourse of science documentaries.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Конструирование информации в кинодискурсе происходит с участием разных семиотических модальностей, при этом особенности их варьирования изучены слабо. Исследование направлено на изучение особенностей представления событий в терминах пространства в языковой и визуальной модальностях научно-популярных документальных фильмов. Гипотеза исследования заключается в том, что три основные типа события - окружающей среды, взаимодействия человека и окружающей среды, взаимодействия людей между собой - задействуют разные возможности конструирования пространства в языке и изображении, что обусловлено возможностями и ограничениями модальностей. Для проверки гипотезы используется метод анализа образ-схем пространственных отношений, которые определяются в лексической и грамматической семантике языка и в расположении, движении и взаимодействии объектов в изображении. Материалом анализа являются 353 события, соотнесенные с клаузами в языке и с кадрами в изображении в двух англоязычных научно-популярных фильмах. Было установлено, что образ-схема ИСТОЧНИК-ПУТЬЦЕЛЬ превалирует в обоих модусах, что не дает ей возможности значимо различать типы событий внутри и между модусами. Схемы ШКАЛА, ПРЯМО, БЛИЖЕ-ДАЛЬШЕ демонстрируют некоторые тенденции в разграничении типов событий, однако значимые различия не были обнаружены, что определенно обусловлено онтологической природой интерпретируемых событий, как и семиотическими характеристиками самих модусов. Также выявлено, что конструирование пространственных отношений в событиях языка и изображения может происходить параллельно (с использованием образ-схем ИСТОЧНИК-ПУТЬ-ЦЕЛЬ, КОНТАКТ, БЛИЖЕ-ДАЛЬШЕ) и комплементарно (с использованием образ-схем ЦЕНТРПЕРИФЕРИЯ, ШКАЛА, ВЕРХ-НИЗ, СПЕРЕДИ-ПОЗАДИ, ПРЯМО, СЛЕВА-СПРАВА), что отражает сложную природу межсемиотических связей в кинодискурсе. Выводы статьи способствуют более глубокому пониманию конструирования событий в мультимодальном дискурсе научно-документальных фильмов.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>multimodality</kwd><kwd>semiotic mode</kwd><kwd>image schema</kwd><kwd>spatial relations construal</kwd><kwd>popular science cinematic discourse</kwd><kwd>event</kwd><kwd>documentary film</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>мультимодальность</kwd><kwd>семиотическая модальность</kwd><kwd>язык</kwd><kwd>изображение</kwd><kwd>образ-схема</kwd><kwd>конструирование пространственных отношений</kwd><kwd>научно-популярный кинодискурс</kwd><kwd>документальный фильм</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Lemke, J. (1998). Multiplying meaning: Visual and verbal semiotics in scientific text. In: Martin J.R., Veel R. (Eds.), Reading science: Critical and functional perspectives on discourses of science. 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