PARIS SCHOOL SEMIOTICS I. THEORY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Interfaces: The Care for a Project -- Some Thoughts on this Intellectual Fare -- Aspects of a Theory in Progress -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- I. Narrative Grammar, Actions and Passions -- Greimas's Narrative Grammar -- I. AT THE FUNDAMENTAL GRAMMAR LEVEL: THE FIRST STAGE OF "NARRATIVIZATION" -- Discussion -- II. FROM THE FUNDAMENTAL GRAMMAR TO THE SURFACE NARRATIVE GRAMMAR: THE NARRATIVE UTTERANCE -- Discussion -- III. FROM THE NARRATIVE UTTERANCE TO THE NARRATIVE UNIT: "PERFORMANCE" -- Discussion -- IV. THE LAST STAGE: THE PERFORMANCE SERIES -- Discussion -- NOTES -- Prolegomenato a Theory of Action -- I. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS -- II. THE NARRATIVE PROGRAM AS MODEL OF REFERENCE FOR A THEORY OF THE FORMS OF ACTION -- III. TOWARDS A RESTRICTED THEORY OF SIMPLE FORMS OF ACTION AND INTERACTION -- IV. FROM THE ACTANTIAL LEVEL TO THE ACTORIAL LEVEL -- NOTES -- Toward an Anthropomorphic Narrative Topos -- I. WHY THREE DIMENSIONS FOR NARRATIVE? -- I.1. Empirical Reasons -- I.2. Empirical reasons alone are not enough -- I.3. Some Applications and Some Developments -- II. DEVELOPING AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC NARRATIVE TOPOS -- II.1. The Combinatory Principle -- II.2. Typology and Syntax -- II.3. Overall Syntax of the thematico-narrative topos -- III. APPLICATIONS -- III.1. The Linguistic Manifest of the three dimensions -- III.2. The Story of the Man who Set out to Learn about Fear -- III.3. Aldo's Conversions in the "Rivage des Syrtes" -- IV. CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- II. Toward Discourse -- Pragmatics and Semiotics Epistemological Observations -- Pragmatics and Semiotics Some Semiotic Conditions of Interaction -- NOTES -- Narrativity and Discursivity Points of Reference and Problematics -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. FUNDAMENTAL POSTULATES.

II.1. The Principle of Immanence -- II.2. The Generative Process -- II.3. The Structural Postulate -- II.4. Narrative Transformation -- III. NARRATTVITY RESTRICTED TO THE NARRATIVE -- III.1. The Narrative Utterance -- III.2. The Narrative Program -- III.3.The Narrative Schema -- IV. NARRATIVE EXTENDED TO DISCOURSE IN GENERAL -- IV.1. The Development of Modal Structures -- IV.2. The Importance of the Cognitive Dimension -- IV.3. The Question of the Subject -- V. SETTING INTO DISCOURSE: ENUNCIATION -- V.1. The Enunciative Conception of Meaning -- V.2. The Enunciative Operations -- V.3. Enunciation in Semiotics -- V.3.1. Setting into Discourse within the Generative Trajectory -- V.3.2. The "Narrativization of Enunciation" -- V.3.3. Figurativization -- VI. CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Prolegomenato Modal Analysis The Enunciating Subject -- I. PREDICATION -- II. META-WANTING -- III. THE FUNCTION OF RECOGNITION -- NOTES -- The Esthetic Gaze -- I. FROM THE MAGNIFICENT VIEW TO THE SINGULAR IMAGE -- The Reference Text -- A Magnificent View -- Two Verbalizations of the

II.5. The Dual Butterfly and the Semiotic Square -- II.6. Equivocity of the Connections and Deployment of the Presuppositions -- II.7. The Reduction of the "Horizontal" Conversion -- III. THE ACTANTIAL MODEL AND FORMAL CONVERSION -- III.1. The Syntagmatization of Actantial Paradigms -- III.2. The Structure of the Actantial Model -- III.3. Variants and Transformations -- IV. CONVERSION BY DUALITY -- V. META-PSYCHOLOGICAL CONVERSION -- VI. ON SOME POSSIBLE EFFECTS -- VII. CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Cyclical Structures in Semiotics Sequel to Jean Petitot's Thesis -- I. REVERSIBILITY AND IRREVERSIBILITY OF CYCLICAL STRUCTURES -- II. THE SEMIOTIC SQUARE -- III. CONVERSION IN THE SEMIOTIC SQUARE -- IV. COINCIDENTIA OPPOSITORUM -- V. THE CIRCULAR COMPACTIFICATION OF THE BUTTERFLY -- VI. EXCHANGE : GIFT AND COUNTER-GIFT -- VII. LUDIC STRUCTURES AND ERRORS -- VIII CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Four Problems of Deep Semiotics -- I. THE STATUS OF THE SQUARE -- II. RELATIONS AND OPERATIONS -- III. THE ONTIC CATEGORY: LIFE/DEATH -- IV. THE SYMBOLIC CATEGORY: CULTURE/NATURE -- V. CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES.