Fiction and importation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21462011 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andreas Stokke (0000-0002-7467-7263, Uppsala University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 65-89 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics and Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-0157 • E-ISSN: 1573-0549 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10988-020-09321-8 |
| OpenAlex | W3138426444 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 41 |
Importation in fictional discourse is the phenomenon by which audiences include information in the story over and above what is explicitly stated by the narrator. This paper argues that importation is distinct from generation, the phenomenon by which truth in fiction may outstrip what is made explicit, and draws a distinction between fictional truth and fictional records. The latter comprises the audience’s picture of what is true according to the narrator. The paper argues that importation into fictional records operates according to principles that also govern ordinary conversation. An account of fictional records as a species of common ground information is proposed. Two sources of importation are described in detail, presupposition accommodation and conversational implicatures. It is shown that presuppositions are both mandatorily imported and mandatorily generated. By contrast, conversational implicatures are neither mandatorily imported nor mandatorily generated. The paper distinguishes conversational implicatures from contextual inferences. Both rely on background assumptions, yet conversational implicatures moreover depend on assumptions concerning Gricean cooperation
Conversation · Epistemology · Linguistics · Phenomenon · Presupposition · Sociology · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence
Narratives and Narrators
Minimal Semantics
Lying, Misleading, and What is Said
Truth-Conditional Pragmatics
The Nature of Fiction
Only Imagine
The Logic of Conventional Implicatures
Lying and Insincerity
Thoughts and Utterances
Context
Conversational Impliciture
On the Representation of Context
Context and Logical Form
On Imagination and Convention. Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language
Presupposition and Linguistic Context
Information structure in discourse
What Is Presupposition Accommodation, Again
Fictional names and individual concepts
Fiction and Fictionalism
Common Ground
Mimesis as Make-Beleive
Fictional Truth and Fictional Authors
Fictive Utterance and the Fictionality of Narratives and Works
Truth in Fiction
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |