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Actantial Model – Greimas

RELATED TERMS: Actant; Actantiality; Actor-Network Theory; Semiotic Square; Human actantiality “Abstract semiotic models like the very articulate and powerful one developed by Greimas and his school should, therefore, be conceived not as point of arrival but as point of departure of the comparative analysis [of cultures of meaning], offering a solid framework in relation to which contrasts could beContinue reading “Actantial Model – Greimas”

Deixis and Deictic Acts

RELATED TERMS: Deictic Cascade; Diegetic Levels; Heterarchy; Metalepsis; Modes of Existence; Tangled Hierarchy and Strange Loop; Transgression Designs enact deictic cascades that frame their actions, or their actantiality, their potential for action, in the theoretical language adopted here. In practice, such hierarchical cascades of deixis form strange loops and heterarchies, giving shape to the shared,Continue reading “Deixis and Deictic Acts”