Definition
An event is a kind of information in discourse that:
- actually occurs,
- is overt
- occurs at the now point on the time line
Discussion
A discourse hypothesis is that events and non-events are differentiated.
Non-examples
- Negatives (Nothing is described as having occurred.)
- Questions (Nothing is described as having occurred.)
- Modal expressions (No claim is made in a modal expression that anything occurred.)
- Expressions containing verbs in projected time (Nothing is described as having yet occurred.)
- Expressions containg verbs (They are not overt. see, hear, feel, but expressions containing look, listen, touch can be events)
- Flashbacks and previews (They don't occur at the now point of the narrative.)