FUNDAMENTALS OF STORY LOGIC INTRODUCTION TO GREIMASSIAN SEMIOTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Foreword: Fundamentals of Story Logic or Semiotics at the Crossroads -- Introduction -- 1. The field of semiotics and the tradition of the Paris School of semiotics -- 2. The Paris School of semiotics in America -- 3. A historical sketch of Greimassian semiotics -- 4. Situation and plan of the work -- I. Nucleus of the Sentence and Nucleus of the Text: The Semantic Grammar of Propositions -- II. The Semantics of Event and Role Relationships -- 1. Theoretical target -- 2. The simple narrative statement -- 3. Verbs of motion and the associated network of roles -- III. A Systemic Definition of Action: The Practical Syllogism -- 1. The practical syllogism -- 2. Teleological explanation of action -- 3. Textual and narrative arguments -- 4. The sentence object reconsidered -- IV. The Subject-Object Relation in Actantial Grammar -- 1. Desire and teleology -- 2. The modal want: desire of realization of action -- 3. The aim of goal-oriented action -- 3a The object as mediating value -- 3b Conjunction and disjunction -- 3c Methodological by-play: deconstruction and the subject-object relation -- 3d The polemical (agonistic) model of narrative -- 4. The explanatory logic of action -- 5. On defining the problems involved in the practical inference or the pragmatic act -- V. Sequel to the Semantics of Event and Role Relationships -- 1. The simple narrative statement: communication -- 2. Codicil to the theoretical target -- 3. Normalization and derivation of contract [A] and communication [C]: first approximation -- VI. Excursus on the Legal Philosophy of Contract and the Sociology of Exchange -- VII. Normalization and Derivation of Contract [A] and Communication [C]: Second Approximation.

1. Relation of the object to the contract [A] -- 1a Agreement and mutual consent -- 1b Task and interaction -- 1c Consequence -- 1d Justice -- 2. Relation of the object to communication -- 2a The object-of-communication as an object-of-motion: the topological syntax of object-values -- 2b The recognition of the hero and his acceptance by society -- 2c Progression of the hero's role-identities and his/her individuation -- VIII. Global Interpretation of the Tale -- 1. The achronic and paradigmatic structure of the tale -- 2. The diachronic and syntagmatic structure of the tale -- 3. Colligation: narrativity, human agency, and authority -- 4. The actantial model -- Appendix: The "Boolean Algebra" of Narrative Events -- Bibliography.