Human action in narrative grammars

TitleHuman action in narrative grammars
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsPavel, T
JournalSemiotica
Volume2017
Pagination219–229
ISSN0037-1998
Abstract

After sketching out a history of twentieth-century structuralist linguistics and poetics, the article presents Greimas’s theoretical contribution to the semiotic study of narratives at various levels, including actants, actors and their kinds of competence, the semiotic square that gives narratives their general meaning, the variety of figures employed, and the thematic fields evoked.

URLhttps://www.degruyter.com/view/j/semi.2017.2017.issue-214/sem-2016-0202/sem-2016-0202.xml
DOI10.1515/sem-2016-0202

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