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Definition of actant in English: actantnoun ˈaktəntˈaktənt 1Grammar
A noun or noun phrase involved in the action expressed by a verb. Example sentencesExamples - Transitive verbs typically have actants that play thematic semantic roles.
- We use the term ‘valence’ to describe semantically an actant of the verb, i. e., to describe the semantic role of the actant.
- The first metafunction consists of an underlying semantic structure or logical form describing relations between actants fulfilling roles in a process (verb or predicate).
2(in literary theory) a person, creature, or object playing any of a set of active roles in a narrative. Example sentencesExamples - These four steps describe the interactions between three actants (abstract representations of characters and their functions): the Subject, the Object and the Sender.
- Their most articulate supporters point out that Latour's non-human actants are already articulated by human agents (bacteria is a human/social category).
- Successful actor-networks are built by enrolling the heterogeneous actants as active participants in a common project.
- As Swapan Chakravorty has observed, the characters in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside are the result of a ‘shuffling [of] the old actants and indices’ of Middleton's earlier plays.
- In other words, an actor / actant must be made relevant to others, be made indispensable to others, and be granted consent by others (enrolment).
Definition of actant in US English: actantnounˈaktənt (in literary theory) a person, creature, or object playing any of a set of active roles in a narrative. the room has become an actant, a surrogate for the heroine herself Example sentencesExamples - Successful actor-networks are built by enrolling the heterogeneous actants as active participants in a common project.
- These four steps describe the interactions between three actants (abstract representations of characters and their functions): the Subject, the Object and the Sender.
- Their most articulate supporters point out that Latour's non-human actants are already articulated by human agents (bacteria is a human/social category).
- In other words, an actor / actant must be made relevant to others, be made indispensable to others, and be granted consent by others (enrolment).
- As Swapan Chakravorty has observed, the characters in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside are the result of a ‘shuffling [of] the old actants and indices’ of Middleton's earlier plays.
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