Frame description

Awareness is when a Cognizer has a piece of Content in their mental model of the world; they are aware of it. The Cognizer may become aware of the Content through direct perception, but usually awareness comes through deduction based on other things the Cognizer has perceived.

Examples:

1. Lucas vermutet, dass wir es nicht ganz schaffen werden.1. Lucas presumes, that we will not completely make it.
2. Aber Bruno wurde nicht für seinen Glauben an Außerirdische getötet.2. But Bruno was not killed for his belief in aliens.
3. Ältere Leute haben einfach wenig Ahnung von Computersicherheit.3. Older people just have little sense of computer security.

This frame is distinct from the Certainty frame, in that it does not profile the relationship of the Cognizer to the Content (i.e. how certain they are that it is true), but rather presupposes it (the Cognizer in Awareness knows or assumes the Content to be true and includes it in their view of the world; their certainty of it is not at issue).

Frame Elements

Frame Element descriptions (on hover):

Cognizer

The person who is (or is not) aware of a phenomenon. Typically expressed as the grammatical subject.

Content

The object or fact that the Cognizer is aware of (and which is thus added to the Cognizer's mental model of the world).

Topic

A more general designation of what the Cognizer is aware of.

Expressor

The body part or action by a body part that conveys the mental state of the Cognizer to an observer.

Degree

The Degree indicates how aware of the Topic or Content the Cognizer is.