- of
actant is
similar to that of argument.
Algirdas Julien Greimas redefined actants as the 3
pairs "Modulations": The
Actant-Subject and the
Actant-Object...
- The
model considers an
action as
divided into six facets,
called actants.
Those actants are a
combined framework inspired mainly between Vladimir Propp's...
-
avalent (no actant),
monovalent (one actant),
divalent (two
actants), and
trivalent (three
actants).
English examples:
Avalent verb: It rained. - The verb...
- a
soccer game: all of
these human or non-human,
material or
immaterial actants have no
agency (and thus, subject-status) in themselves, however, they...
-
greater or
lesser number of
actants. For
these actants, the verb has a
greater or
lesser number of
bonds that
maintain the
actants as dependents. The number...
- 'flat iron'. An
actant is any
constituent which can
enter a case
relationship with the verb.
Teduray distinguishes six
types of
actants: agent, object...
-
psychological thriller A
Screen Actors Guild Award, also
known as the
Actor Actants, also
called "actors", in actor-network
theory (a
general theory of sociological...
- to
exist in all languages.
Dependency grammars sometimes call
arguments actants,
following Lucien Tesnière (1959). The area of
grammar that
explores the...
- uses an ****emblage of
actants he
nicknames the "hybrid collectif." This
network contains a
large set of
human and non-human
actants (the
Desert itself,...
- From the
perspective of
thing theory, the
ladder serves as a
storytelling actant,
serving as a
bridge between the
actors and the action. Moreover, the ladder...
