The Semiotics of Discourse

Original Scholarly Monograph

Heidi Bostic is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Gender Studies at Michigan Technological University. Jacques Fontanille is President of the Universite de Limoges in France, where he is also Professor of Linguistics and Semiotics. He holds the Chair in Semiotics at the Institut Universitaire de France.

Translator's Preface

xi

Acknowledgments

xv

Foreword

xvii

Chapter 1: From the Sign to Discourse

1

(22)

0. Introduction

1

(1)

1. Sign and Signification

2

(8)

1.1. The Diversity of Approaches to Meaning

2

(4)

1.2. Theories of the Sign

6

(4)

2. Perception and Signification

10

(13)

2.1. Elements to Remember

10

(1)

2.2. The Two Planes of a Language

11

(3)

2.3. The Sensible and the Intelligible

14

(9)

Chapter 2: The Elementary Structures

23

(22)

0. Introduction

23

(1)

1. The Binary Structures

24

(3)

1.1. The Privative Opposition

24

(2)

1.2. The Opposition Between Contraries

26

(1)

2. The Semiotic Square

27

(6)

2.1. The Constitutive Relations

27

(3)

2.2. The Elementary Syntax

30

(1)

2.3. Axiological Polarization

31

(1)

2.4. Second-Generation Terms

32

(1)

3. The Ternary Structure

33

(3)

3.1. The Three Levels of Apprehension of Phenomena

33

(1)

3.2. Properties of the Three Levels

33

(1)

3.3. Modes of Existence

34

(2)

4. The Tensive Structure

36

(9)

4.1. Problems in Suspense

36

(1)

4.2 New Requirements

36

(1)

4.3. The Dimensions of the Sensible

37

(1)

4.4. The Correlation Between the Two Dimensions

38

(1)

4.5. The Two Types of Correlation

39

(2)

4.6. From Valences to Values

41

(1)

4.7. Summary

42

(3)

Chapter 3: Discourse

45

(50)

0. Introduction

45

(1)

1. Text, Discourse, and Narrative

46

(10)

1.1. The Text

46

(1)

1.2. Discourse

47

(1)

1.3. Narrative

48

(1)

1.4. Text and Discourse

49

(5)

1.5. Narrative and Discourse

54

(2)

2. The Instance of Discourse

56

(9)

2.1. The Taking of Position

56

(1)

2.2. Gagement

57

(1)

2.3. The Positional Field

58

(7)

3. Discursive Schemas

65

(30)

3.1. Schemas of Tension

66

(5)

3.2. Canonical Schemas

71

(12)

3.3. The Syntax of Discourse

83

(12)

Chapter 4: Actants, Actors, and Modalities

95

(34)

0. Introduction

95

(1)

1. Actants and Actors

96

(7)

1.1. Actants and Predicates

96

(1)

1.2. Trajectories of Identity, Roles, and Attitudes

97

(3)

1.3. Actants and Actors of the Sentence

100

(3)

2. Transformational Actants and Positional Actants

103

(10)

2.1. Transformation and Discursive Orientation

103

(2)

2.2. Positional Actants

105

(2)

2.3. Transformational Actants

107

(3)

2.4. The Positional Field and the Predicative Scene

110

(3)

3. Modalities

113

(16)

3.1. The Modality as Predicate

113

(5)

3.2. Modalization as Passional Imaginary

118

(11)

Chapter 5: Action, Passion, and Cognition

129

(54)

0. Introduction

129

(3)

1. Action

132

(10)

1.1. Reconstruction by Presupposition

132

(2)

1.2. The Programming of Action

134

(8)

2. Passion

142

(16)

2.1. Passional Intensity and Quantity

143

(7)

2.2. Figures of the Passional Dimension of Discourse

150

(8)

3. Cognition

158

(11)

3.1. Knowing and Believing

160

(1)

3.2. Apprehensions and Rationalities

161

(8)

4. Intersections and Embeddings

169

(14)

4.1. Embeddings

169

(2)

4.2. The Sensible and the Intelligible

171

(12)

Chapter 6: Enunciation

183

0. Introduction

183

(1)

1. Recapitulation

184

(2)

1.1. The Proprioceptive Instance

184

(1)

1.2. The Field of Presence

184

(1)

1.3. Discursive Regimes

185

(1)

2. Comparisons

186

(9)

2.1. Enunciation and Communication

186

(1)

2.2. Enunciation and Subjectivity

187

(6)

2.3. Enunciation and Speech Acts

193

(2)

3. Enunciative Praxis

195

(4)

4. The Operations of Praxis

199

(6)

4.1. Existential Tensions

199

(1)

4.2. The Existential Becoming of Semiotic Objects

200

(2)

4.3. The Existential Becoming of the Instance of Discourse

202

(3)

5. The Semiosphere

205

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