Actants

Word ACTANTS
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What do we mean by actants?

(grammar) Any of the participants, such as the subject or object, in a grammatical clause.

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The word "actants" in example sentences

One of the first questions posed by the inner circle of the Directorate body was "When do the actants go?" ❋ Unknown (2010)

I'm only/just one of Bennettes 'actants floating on a screen memory of the existence, far flung, ❋ Unknown (2010)

The distinction there/then ridiculous fiction: On short notice Kog reorganizes the world and all its actants into a ball of lard and smokes it ❋ Kog Zadare (2010)

What interests me is the way both the actants and the audience, who are largely indistinguishable from each other, tie their fantasies of national and imperial election to an unresolved cultural wound. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Just as that head of lettuce is there in the supermarket and just as fluctuations in supply and demand do effect price, semiotic entities are actants in collectives as well. ❋ Larvalsubjects (2010)

We expect, for example, all change to come from the semiotic domain, from the domain of content, missing the role that nonhuman actants play in collectives creating a set of stable-state attractor points that keep these collectives organized in the same way despite semiotic, discursive, interpretive, and linguistic shifts that take place within the field of the collective. ❋ Larvalsubjects (2010)

The riddle of all phenomena are to be sought in texts, signs, signifiers, and language, such that all non-linguistic actants disappear altogether. ❋ Larvalsubjects (2010)

Objects/things actually speak to the poet: they are vocal actants that produce a "living, buried speech" [Whitman's phrase], and pace Bruno Latour, they are actants that contribute to the world in ways that exceed their roles as objects of perception. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Chaucer's poetry as a site where so many actants, real and fictional, gather [and shape each other, cognitively, affectively] over time, and therefore gives rise to the question, "where does the self end and alterity begin?" ❋ Unknown (2010)

The non-social actors or actants out of which the social is composed are, for Latour, both human and nonhuman. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In my case, however, symbolic entities are real actants or objects no less than rocks or stars. ❋ Unknown (2009)

SANGONeT ggeoapos An actor-network perspective on changing work practices: Communication technologies as actants in newswork -- Plesner 10 (5): 604 -- ❋ Unknown (2009)

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