Fictional force

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21370751
AutoresAndreas Stokke (0000-0002-7467-7263, Uppsala University, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume180
Fascículo10-11
Páginas3099-3120
Data de publicação2023-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhilosophical Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0031-8116 • E-ISSN: 1573-0883
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11098-023-02035-0
OpenAlexW4386522771
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas52

This paper argues for an account of fictional force, the central characteristic of the kind of non-assertoric speech act that authors of fictions are engaged in. A distinction is drawn between what is true in a fiction and the fictional record comprising what the audience has been told. The papers argues that to utter a sentence with fictional force is to intend that its content be added to a fictional record. It is shown that this view accounts for phenomena such as conversational implicatures in fictional discourse. Moreover, the view is seen to provide an attractive way of distinguishing fictional utterances from assertoric utterances. As a consequence, this account of fictional force offers a satisfactory way of distinguishing fiction from lying

Art · Content (measure theory) · Epistemology · Fictional universe · Linguistics · Literature · Lying · Metaphysics · Narrative · Philosophy of language · Sentence · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy