So called actantial model is a formulation of narrative structures developed by Lithuanian linguist Algirdas Julius (Julien) Greimas ( 1917 – 1992) which belongs to the Generative Trajectory Model of Meaning.
I would like to hear from you, what kind of applications of actantial model (or related devices) you have encountered and how you have been utilizing them.
I have applied the actantial model when studying knowledge use issues around bachelor theses at the Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences.
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Juha
I have been using it in studying political discourse and how political actors (individual and collective) undrstand reality. I apply it to political research within interpretive approach.
I have been using this model for literary criticism of plays where conflict occurs as a result of two groups in opposition. Here, I examine the classical and the romantic in plays produced in romantic period in Germany and France. In fact, this model was specifically applied in my doctoral thesis where I applied it to depict romantic traits in Victor Hugo's Hernani and Wolfgang Goethe's Faust. A paper is about to be published on this. I shall upload it as soon as it is published.
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Are you familiar with the Observing Subject (meta) actantial category discussed by Louis Hébert? (http://www.signosemio.com/greimas/actantial-model.asp) To me it allowed to introduce means to handle multiple actantial models simultaneously.
See also: Louis Hébert: An Introduction to Applied Semiotics: Tools for Text and Image Analysis. (Routledge 2019)
I applied the Greimasian model in my doctoral thesis. It helped me prove a doctrinal shift in the Catholic social teaching before and after the Second Vatican Council.
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