Contents -- Translator's Preface xi -- Acknowledgments xv -- Foreword xvii -- Chapter 1: From the Sign to Discourse 1 -- 0. Introduction 1 -- 1. Sign and Signi cation 2 -- 1.1. The Diversity of Approaches to Meaning 2 -- 1.2. Theories of the Sign 6 -- 2. Perception and Signi cation 10 -- 2.1. Elements to Remember 10 -- 2.2. The Two Planes of a Language 11 -- 2.3. The Sensible and the Intelligible 14 -- Chapter 2: The Elementary Structures 23 -- 0. Introduction 23 -- 1. The Binary Structures 24 -- 1.1. The Privative Opposition 24 -- 1.2. The Opposition Between Contraries 26 -- 2. The Semiotic Square 27 -- 2.1. The Constitutive Relations 27 -- 2.2. The Elementary Syntax 30 -- 2.3. Axiological Polarization 31 -- 2.4. Second-Generation Terms 32 -- 3. The Ternary Structure 33 -- 3.1. The Three Levels of Apprehension of Phenomena 33 -- 3.2. Properties of the Three Levels 33 -- 3.3. Modes of Existence 34 -- 4. The Tensive Structure 36 -- 4.1. Problems in Suspense 36 -- 4.2 New Requirements 36 -- 4.3. The Dimensions of the Sensible 37 -- 4.4. The Correlation Between the Two Dimensions 38 -- 4.5. The Two Types of Correlation 39 -- 4.6. From Valences to Values 41 -- 4.7. Summary 42 -- Chapter 3: Discourse 45 -- 0. Introduction 45 -- 1. Text, Discourse, and Narrative 46 -- 1.1. The Text 46 -- 1.2. Discourse 47 -- 1.3. Narrative 48 -- 1.4. Text and Discourse 49 -- 1.5. Narrative and Discourse 54 -- 2. The Instance of Discourse 56 -- 2.1. The Taking of Position 56 -- 2.2. Gagement 57 -- 2.3. The Positional Field 58 -- 3. Discursive Schemas 65 -- 3.1. Schemas of Tension 66 -- 3.2. Canonical Schemas 71 -- 3.3. The Syntax of Discourse 83 -- Chapter 4: Actants, Actors, and Modalities 95 -- 0. Introduction 95 -- 1. Actants and Actors 96 -- 1.1. Actants and Predicates 96 -- 1.2. Trajectories of Identity, Roles, and Attitudes 97.

1.3. Actants and Actors of the Sentence 100 -- 2. Transformational Actants and Positional Actants 103 -- 2.1. Transformation and Discursive Orientation 103 -- 2.2. Positional Actants 105 -- 2.3. Transformational Actants 107 -- 2.4. The Positional Field and the Predicative Scene 110 -- 3. Modalities 113 -- 3.1. The Modality as Predicate 113 -- 3.2. Modalization as Passional Imaginary 118 -- Chapter 5: Action, Passion, and Cognition 129 -- 0. Introduction 129 -- 1. Action 132 -- 1.1. Reconstruction by Presupposition 132 -- 1.2. The Programming of Action 134 -- 2. Passion 142 -- 2.1. Passional Intensity and Quantity 143 -- 2.2. Figures of the Passional Dimension of Discourse 150 -- 3. Cognition 158 -- 3.1. Knowing and Believing 160 -- 3.2. Apprehensions and Rationalities 161 -- 4. Intersections and Embeddings 169 -- 4.1. Embeddings 169 -- 4.2. The Sensible and the Intelligible 171 -- Chapter 6: Enunciation 183 -- 0. Introduction 183 -- 1. Recapitulation 184 -- 1.1. The Proprioceptive Instance 184 -- 1.2. The Field of Presence 184 -- 1.3. Discursive Regimes 185 -- 2. Comparisons 186 -- 2.1. Enunciation and Communication 186 -- 2.2. Enunciation and Subjectivity 187 -- 2.3. Enunciation and Speech Acts 193 -- 3. Enunciative Praxis 195 -- 4. The Operations of Praxis 199 -- 4.1. Existential Tensions 199 -- 4.2. The Existential Becoming of Semiotic Objects 200 -- 4.3. The Existential Becoming of the Instance of Discourse 202 -- 5. The Semiosphere 205.