Anna Kryshtaliuk Ivan Ogienko National University of Kamianets-Podilsky, Ukraine Embodied Representation of Events in Modern English Newspaper Discourse Abstract This paper argues that conceptual event representations encoded in language are embodied, i.e. grounded in the human physical, mental, social and cultural interaction with the world. The main tools used for the study are image schemas. The basic theoretical ground for the paper is the claim that these elementary mental structures of sensori- motor origin represent topological, perceptual, spatial-motor, dynamic and scalar relations between referents (Potapenko 2009: 38). According to the relations image schemas structure topological, perceptual, spatial-motor and dynamic event representations have been singled out. This paper offers a detailed analysis of the ways image schemas participate in the construction of the outlined above event representations in English newspapers performing orientating and discourse functions. The topological event representation is based on image schemas UP-DOWN, BACK-FRONT, CENTER-PERIPHERY, LEFT-RIGHT which perform a preliminary orientating function fixing the direction of a reader’s look. The hypertextual discourse function of topological image schemas lies in (i) establishing a general structure of newspaper pages and texts, (ii) specifying the boundaries of the reader’s field of view, (iii) determining the prospective effect produced by the event on the reader, (iv) making it possible to differentiate events according to such features as generality vs. specificity, analysis vs. fact, emotionality vs. rationality, global vs. local, close vs. distant. The perceptual event representation is constructed by means of image schemas OBJECT, PLURALITY, COUNTABILITY, MASS which perform the initial orientating function representing the qualitative and quantitative change of an image of a physical object while approaching and distancing. Events structured with perceptual image schemas represent finding or not finding proof of any criminal activity, announcing the results of the court cases, technological disasters and behavior of the victims of the accidents, e.g. No evidence Harvard officials read faculty e-mails, report says (The New York Times, 23.07.2013). Most of the events in the English newspaper discourse are constructed dynamically mainly by means of force image schemas. For instance, the force image schema ENABLEMENT represents events dealing with participants’ ability to achieve results through this or that activity and be successful, e.g. Australian doctors hail ‘miracle’ after bringing woman back from dead (The Daily Telegraph, 19.08.2013). Keywords: topological event representation, perceptual event representation, spatial-motor event representation, dynamic event representation, image schema, newspaper discourse 1. Introduction In recent years the notion of ‘event’ has been widely used and interpreted in relation to both language and cognition. In linguistic studies it has been mostly investigated as a construct of semantic analysis, with much attention paid to its description in language (Rothstein 2004). With the cognitive turn the interaction of linguistic and cognitive event representations has become central to modern scientific research (Badio 2014, Bohnemeyer and Pederson 2011). The object of this paper is the embodied discursive event representation, which is the conceptualization of a raw event, i.e. of something happening in a certain space and time (Arutiunova 1999: 507), changing our knowledge about the world (Duskaeva 2005: 129) and making it fresh and novel (Chernyh 2007: 52). The component ‘embodied’ of the embodied discursive event representation presupposes it being grounded in the human physical, cognitive, social and cultural interaction with the environment. The component ‘discursive’ indicates discourse as a medium that produces the embodied event representation. The favourable conditions for the study of the embodied event representation are offered by the newspaper