Table of contents for The semiotics of discourse / Jacques Fontanille ; translated by Heidi Bostic.

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The Semiotics of Discourse: Contents
Translator?s Preface
Foreword
Chapter 1: From the Sign to Discourse
	1. Sign and Signification
		1.1. The Diversity of Approaches to Meaning
		1.2. Theories of the Sign
	2. Perception and Signification
		2.1. Elements to Remember
		2.2. The Two Planes of a Language
		2.3. The Sensible and the Intelligible
Chapter 2: The Elementary Structures
	1. The Binary Structures
		1.1. The Privative Opposition
		1.2. The Opposition Between Contraries
	2. The Semiotic Square
		2.1. The Constitutive Relations
		2.2. The Elementary Syntax
		2.3. Axiological Polarization
		2.4. Second-Generation Terms
	3. The Ternary Structure
		3.1. The Three Levels of Apprehension of Phenomena
		3.2. Properties of the Three Levels
		3.3. Modes of Existence
	4. The Tensive Structure
		4.1. Problems in Suspense
		4.2. New Requirements
		4.3. The Dimensions of the Sensible
		4.4. The Correlation Between the Two Dimensions
		4.5. The Two Types of Correlation
		4.6. From Valences to Values
		4.7. Summary
Chapter 3: Discourse
	1. Text, Discourse, and Narrative
		1.1. The Text
		1.2. Discourse
		1.3. Narrative
		1.4. Text and Discourse
		1.5. Narrative and Discourse
	2. The Instance of Discourse
		2.1. The Taking of Position
		2.2. Gagement
		2.3. The Positional Field
	3. Discursive Schemas
		3.1. Schemas of Tension
		3.2. Canonical Schemas
		3.3. The Syntax of Discourse
Chapter 4: Actants, Actors, and Modalities
	1. Actants and Actors
		1.1. Actants and Predicates
		1.2. Trajectories of Identity, Roles and Attitudes
		1.3. Actants and Actors of the Sentence
	2. Transformational Actants and Positional Actants
		2.1. Transformation and Discursive Orientation
		2.2. Positional Actants
		2.3. Transformational Actants
		2.4. The Positional Field and the Predicative Scene
	3. Modalities
		3.1. The Modality as Predicate
		3.2. Modalization as Passional Imaginary
Chapter 5: Action, Passion, and Cognition
	1. Action
		1.1. Reconstruction by Presupposition
		1.2. The Programming of Action
	2. Passion
		2.1. Passional Intensity and Quantity
		2.2. Figures of the Passional Dimension of Discourse
	3. Cognition
		3.1. Knowing and Believing
		3.2. Apprehensions and Rationalities
	4. Intersections and Embeddings
		4.1. Embeddings
		4.2. The Sensible and the Intelligible
Chapter 6: Enunciation
	1. Recapitulation
		1.1. The Proprioceptive Instance
		1.2. The Field of Presence
		1.3. Discursive Regimes
	2. Comparisons
		2.1. Enunciation and Communication
		2.2. Enunciation and Subjectivity
		2.3. Enunciation and Speech Acts
	3. Enunciative Praxis
	4. The Operations of Praxis
		4.1. Existential Tensions
		4.2. The Existential Becoming of Semiotic Objects
		4.3. The Existential Becoming of the Instance of Discourse
	5. The Semiosphere

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Semiotics.
Discourse analysis.