Cognitive Script of the Situation of Emotional Modification

This article examines the cognitive scenario of a situation involving the causation of emotional modification, which is actualized by emotive causatives. This situation is categorical for them. The prototypical participants are the person who exerts the emotional influence (the causator) and the person upon whom this influence is exerted (the object of causation). Since any influence typically implies an instrument, the means by which it is accomplished, the instrumental component is also considered a basic participant in the analyzed situation. The methods of actualizing the instrument in the situation of causation of emotional modification are the focus of this article. Explicit and implicit methods of its actualization in an utterance are possible. In the explicit method, all participants in the situation occupy the positions of the corresponding members of the sentence according to their semantic roles. Implicit methods include incorporation or collapse of the propositional structure. In this case, the instrument is included in the semantic potential of other units and does not require explication. Non-explicit methods of instrumental actualization include its incorporation into the semantic potential of a verb, which in this case has a metaphorical nature. The situation described by a verb with an incorporated instrumental component does not require further explication, but also does not preclude its clarification if necessary. The instrumental component can also be actualized in subject position, formally acting as a causator. In such cases, we are talking about condensed propositional structures for the sake of linguistic economy. The causator actualizes some aspect of the situation associated with an animate person. Such structures can be expanded, so that each component of the situation occupies its proper position.