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More about shared schematic knowledge

Task C – Schematic knowledge about places and situations

We also have schematic knowledge about places and situations. This knowledge can usefully be subdivided into (i) scene knowledge: the schematic knowledge we have about what objects, and with what properties, we would normally expect to find in a particular place and (ii) script knowledge: what we would expect to happen in that place, and in what order.

We will use lectures as our example. First we will test out your schematic scene knowledge for lecture theatres and then we will explore your schematic assumptions about lecture scripts.

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