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Actantial model
About: Actantial model is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 66 publications have been published within this topic receiving 452 citations. The topic is also known as: actantial narrative schema.
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TL;DR: In this article, a Danish expatriate manager and his Chinese CEO in the Shanghai subsidiary of an MNE were interviewed to understand intercultural collaboration processes by analyzing how each member of a dyad of interacting managers narrates the same chain of events.
Abstract: The objective of this article is to show how narrative methods provide useful tools for international business research. We do this by presenting a study of stories told about the collaboration between a Danish expatriate manager and his Chinese CEO in the Shanghai subsidiary of an MNE. First, we explain and exemplify how narrative interviews are designed and conducted. In this connection, we consider the interviewers’ interaction with the interviewees, and clarify our reasons for focusing on the two selected interviews. Second, we demonstrate how narrative concepts and models are able to elucidate intercultural collaboration processes by analyzing how each member of a dyad of interacting managers narrates the same chain of events. We show how the narratological concepts of peripeteia and anagnorisis are well suited to identifying focal points in their stories: situations where change follows their recognizing new dimensions of their conflicts, eventually furthering their collaboration. We explain how Greimas's actantial model is valuable when mapping differences between and changes in the narrators’ projects, alliances and oppositions in the course of their interaction. Thus, we make it clear how they overcome most of their differences and establish common ground through mutual learning.
112 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a discursive perspective to analyze the way in which top managers legitimize change in official announcements, focusing on the foundations of legitimacy invoked using both Weber's typology, based on modes of authority and the conventionalist model, stressing the constitutive frameworks that justify collective action.
Abstract: This study uses a discursive perspective to analyze the way in which top managers legitimize change in official announcements. It focuses on the foundations of legitimacy invoked using both Weber's typology, based on modes of authority, and the conventionalist model, stressing the constitutive frameworks that justify collective action. We use a narrative approach to examine four texts intended for employees in the context of mergers‐acquisitions in the Canadian financial services sector. We look at those announcements as wedding narratives. A framework based on the canonical schema and Greimas's actantial model was applied to the texts. The analysis reveals that these narrations of corporate marriages, while describing the same event, give distinct versions of it. These distinctions bring out differences between firms in terms of the foundations of legitimacy invoked, the contribution of the various actors, and the narrative style favoured.
72 citations
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22 Mar 1995
TL;DR: Theatre is composed of a multitude of signifying systems that have a dual function: as literary practice and as performance practice as mentioned in this paper, and a comprehensive overview of various semiotic approaches is placed in the context of modern European, North American, and Latin American theatre.
Abstract: Theatre is composed of a multitude of signifying systems that have a dual function: as literary practice and as performance practice. Fernando de Toro carefully considers the multiple and complex components which constitute the relationships between a text, its concretization as performance, and its reception by the audience in this translation and revision of his Semi3/4tica del teatro: Del texto a la puesta en escena. He focuses on discourse, textuality, semiosis, reception, actantial functions, and history; this comprehensive overview of the various semiotic approaches is placed in the context of modern European, North American, and Latin American theatre. De Toro begins with an examination of theatre discourse as linguistic expression and as semiosis, and differentiates theatre discourse from other forms of literary discourse and performance. He then thoroughly explores the relationship between the dramatic text and the performance text. A chapter devoted to theatre semiotics establishes how signification functions in drama and performance, in terms of Charles Sanders Peirce's trichotomy (icon, index, symbol). Final chapters focus on theatre reception (the emitter and receptor); the actantial model, and how it has evolved; and a semiological reflection on the history of the theatre. Theatre Semiotics provides a thorough argument for the place and the necessity of semiotics within the interpretive process of theatre.
33 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, Jezegou et al. presented empirical research conducted with French speaking adults studying for a diploma, their training took place mainly in e-learning and the goal of this research was to identify and explain the processes of influence existing between two specific dimensions: the degree of openness of the components of the elearning situation and students' self-regulated behaviors in the management of these components.
Abstract: This article presents empirical research conducted with French speaking adults studying for a diploma. Their training took place mainly in e-learning. The goal of this research was to identify and explain the processes of influence existing between two specific dimensions: the degree of openness of the components of the e-learning situation and students’ self-regulated behaviors in the management of these components. This research was based on the socio-cognitive theory of self-regulation (Bandura, 1986; Schunk & Zimmerman, 2007; Zimmerman, 2002) and on a theoretical definition of the notion of “openness” (Jezegou, 2005). It applied the “actantial model” (Greimas, 1966; Hiernaux, 1977) for analyzing data collected while using a specific validated instrument of assessment of openness (Jezegou, 2010a). The main results of this empirical work are the role played by three psychological dimensions in the influence processes identified. More empirical study is required to confirm their validity.
23 citations
TL;DR: Christianson as discussed by the authors uses a variety of methods from art criticism to Todorov's actantial model to sketch a compr ehensive picture of some hitherto neglected narrative elements in Qoheleth's text.
Abstract: Christianson uses a variety of methods from art criticism to Todorov''s actantial model to sketch a compr ehensive picture of some hitherto neglected narrative elemen ts in Qoheleth''s text '
22 citations
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| 2021 | 4 |
| 2020 | 4 |
| 2019 | 8 |
| 2018 | 3 |
| 2017 | 4 |
| 2016 | 6 |