10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACTANT»
Discover the use of
actant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
actant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Narratives We Organize by
Greimas defines an actant as a structural unit or a function. It is not necessarily a
person (a character) that represents an actant; it may also be an abstraction (e.g.
success) or an institution (e.g. the banking system; the telecommunications ...
Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges, Pasquale Gagliardi, 2003
Minor classes: No-actant verbs and one-actant verbs In what follows we shall
examine some minority verb classes conveying notions which, in various
languages, would seem to belong to the same semantic fields. We shall
commence with ...
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Computers and Writing: State of the Art
We have to specify which actual actors fill the actant roles in the narrative, e.g.
that the giver actant is filled with the "king" and the helper actant with a bird, a
snake, and a pig. Each actant slot can be filled by several actors (both bird, snake
and ...
Patrik Holt, Noel Williams, 1992
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Paris School Semiotics: Theory
fact, to the transformations of conjunction-disjunction (Actant-Object of value)
which are properly of a performative nature in narrative interpretations. We shall
now propose an interpretation of the semiotic square which falls within the ...
Paul Perron, Frank Collins, 1989
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The Double Twist: From Ethnography to Morphodynamics
(a) (b) (c) Figure 13 The three dynamic cusp scenarios for the occupation of a
sheet by an actant. (a) The actant occupies statically its natural sheet; (b) the
actant occupies its natural sheet after having captured the anti-actant; (c) by a
process ...
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ELexicography in the 21st Century : New Challenges, New ...
Assigning type
actant or circumstant The feature assigns a type to the participant:
actant or circumstant. The features <Nom, SUJ> and <Nom, OBJ> are actants in
all cases (with all verbs) and the feature <Adverbe, ADV> is always associated ...
Sylviane Granger, Magali Paquot, 2010
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Language Typology 1985: Papers from the Linguistic Typology ...
a hierarchical representation one would write, for a two-place predicate, <lS/A]/A
> (using S for sentence and A for actant here, in place of the more traditional
noun phrase). Removing the hierarchization of actants, we could write simply <S/
An, ...
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Le discours aspectualisé
ESTAR SER Actant de phase Norme 2 Actant normatif Norme 1 Actant normatif
Un actant se déplace par rapport à un chorème. Il est localisé dans un cadre
spatia— temporel. Il est là ou bien il n 'est pas là. Il sort et il entre. L'attraction est
forte ...
He or she might be seen as the (anthropomorphic) unit that manifests, within the
story, the notion (or force field) that is covered in the concept of actant. Thus the
sender-actant is lexicalized under the type of king-actor at the end of Cinna.
Anne Ubersfeld, Paul Perron, Patrick Debbèche, 1999
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Environmental Policy Processes Surrounding South Africa’s ...
When the moment of interessement succeeds (Callon, 1986), the proposed actor/
actant- network(s) are created and thus marks the first phase of completed
enrolment. Actor/actant- network(s) have been found to act as if they are
independent ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ACTANT»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
actant is used in the context of the following news items.
A droite, la ligne Merkel divise
D'un côté, Nicolas Sarkozy campe sur une ligne dure, en actant la sortie de la Grèce de la zone euro. Dans un entretien au Monde le 2 juillet, ... «Le Monde, Jul 15»
RD Congo - Rwanda - Ouganda : Ils tiennent à sauver les accords …
La plus spectaculaire des déclarations actant la perte de l'Est du Congo au profit du Rwanda et de l'Ouganda a été faite en 2011 par Herman ... «AgoraVox, May 15»
Introducing GSOFT
The cholesterol is a line-actant, which causes the DPPC crystals to grow as thinning, twisting arms, with the twist being determined by the ... «Physics Today, Apr 15»
The Tom Robinson Show
Baby, You're An Actant. white. Add "Organised Scum || Baby, Youre An Actant" to Playlister Add "Organised Scum || Baby, Youre An Actant" to ... «BBC 6 Music, Mar 15»
Sartre's record during the Occupation didn't qualify him to pronounce …
It could be said that since the fundamental premise of existentialism was that activity and actant are inseparable — that to do is to be — a Sartre ... «Spectator.co.uk, Mar 15»
La notion d'État en russe moderne à travers les associations verbales
... comporte l'actant du pouvoir dominant qui renvoie à l'autorité d'une seule personne, du monarque, d'où vient la personnification de vlast'. «Revues.org, Jan 15»
Le tribunal devra trancher sur la valeur réelle de l'ex théâtre
... par les membres du collectif de défense de l'ancien théâtre contre la délibération du conseil municipal du 23 septembre 2013 actant la vente ... «www.7apoitiers.fr, Jan 15»
D'On the Road à Into the Wild : la parabole du désenchantement
... accompagnant au siècle dernier celle plus récente du cinéma, est un peu celle d'un actant dramatique, spectaculaire voire métaphysique. «Revues.org, Dec 14»
The Defiant New Postmodern Tamil Cinema
Likewise, Anu Michael is a key actant in the micro-narrative of the supernatural comedy thriller Pizza. She goads her pizza deliveryman ... «PopMatters, Sep 14»
Officiel: le viaduc Reyers à Schaerbeek sera détruit d'ici à 2015
Ainsi en actant la décision de principe de créer un tunnel pour trams et voiture sous le carrefour Meiser, on participe à ce principe essentiel ... «La Capitale, Sep 14»
