Actantial model

In structural semantics, the actantial model, also called the actantial narrative schema, is a tool used to analyze the action that takes place in a story, whether real or fictional.[1][2] It was developed in 1966 by semiotician Algirdas Julien Greimas.[3][4]

The model considers an action as divided into six facets, called actants.[1] Those actants are a combined framework inspired mainly between Vladimir Propp's and Étienne Souriau's actantial theories.[5]

Greimas took the term actant from linguist Lucien Tesnière, which coined in his discussion of the grammar of noun phrases.[6]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 Herbert 2006 Tools, Ch.5, Origins and function
  2. ↑ Herbert 2006 Actantial
  3. ↑ Greimas, Algirdas Julien [1966] Structural Semantics: An Attempt at a Method
  4. ↑ Greimas (1973).
  5. ↑ Venancio, Rafael Duarte Oliveira, Narrative between Action and Transformation: A. J. Greimas' Narratological Models (December 3, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2879907
  6. ↑ David Herman, Manfred Jahn, Marie-Laure Ryan (2005) Routledge encyclopedia of narrative theory, p. 574

Sources

  • Greimas, Algirdas Julien. 1973. "Actants, Actors, and Figures." On Meaning: Selected Writings in Semiotic Theory. Trans. Paul J. Perron and Frank H, Collins. Theory and History of Literature, 38. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1987. 106-120.
  • Herbert, Louis (2006) Tools for Text and Image Analysis: An Introduction to Applied Semiotics, online eboook, published by Texto !
  • Herbert, Louis (2006) The Actantial Model, in Louis Hébert (dir.), Signo [online], Rimouski (Quebec), http://www.signosemio.com

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