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- Title
Actantial analysis: Greimas's structural approach to the analysis of self-narratives.
- Authors
Yong Wang; Roberts, Carl W.
- Abstract
This article focuses on a formal procedure for analyzing narratives that was developed by French Lithuanian structuralist A. J. Greimas. Linguists have developed two types of models for analyzing narrative data: the syntagmatic and the paradigmatic. Syntagmatic models are sequential in nature. Paradigmatic models use a contextual approach in which sequences of events are presumed to reflect a stable underlying structure. Greimas referred to his analytic approach as actantial analysis. At the heart of his actantial model of narratives is what he called the elementary structure of signification, also known as the semiotic square. This semiotic structure establishes a set of abstract relations for analyzing narrative structure.
- Subjects
NARRATION; LINGUISTIC analysis; GREIMAS, Algirdas Julien, 1917-1992; LINGUISTS; PARADIGM (Linguistics); REFERENCE (Linguistics)
- Publication
Narrative Inquiry, 2005, Vol 15, Issue 1, p51
- ISSN
1387-6740
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/ni.15.1.04wan