Abstract
The study of signs or symbols and how they produce meanings in social communication falls within the confine of Semiotics. Semiotics is a theory of signification which endeavours to investigate the possibility of meanings generation in all contexts including works of literature. This paper aims in purpose to examine and describe the actantial narrative schema of Mukoma Wa Thiong??o??s Nairobi Heat, a crime or detective novel of the Whodunit genre. The actantial narrative schema was developed by Algirdas Julien Greimas, a Lithuanian semiotician as a tool for structural account of narratives. The actantial model has six actants divided into three binary oppositions each of which forms an axis of the actantial description and also the relationship among the actants.
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The datasets used in this study are openly available at [repository link] and the source code is available on GitHub at [GitHub link].
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This work did not receive any external funding.
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