Fictional force

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21370751
AutoresAndreas Stokke (0000-0002-7467-7263, Uppsala University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen180
Número10-11
Páginas3099-3120
Fecha de publicación2023-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPhilosophical Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0031-8116 • E-ISSN: 1573-0883
EditorialSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11098-023-02035-0
OpenAlexW4386522771
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias 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