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]

Greimas took the term actant from linguist Lucien Tesnière, which coined in his discussion of the grammar of noun phrases.[5]

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  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. David Herman, Manfred Jahn, Marie-Laure Ryan (2005) Routledge encyclopedia of narrative theory, p. 574

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