From Speech Acts to Literary Genres

Toward a Factual and Fictional Discourses Typology

Bibliographic Data

ID9690932
AuthorsSimon Fournier (Université du Québec à Rimouski, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume57
Issue4
Pages877-894
Publication date2018-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDialogue (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0012217318000264
OpenAlexW2805785039
LanguageEN
References cited18

In recent decades, speech act theorists began analyzing discourses in order to describe the logic that governs the use and understanding of language in the context of interlocutions. This paper is in the wake of those studies. It questions the fruitfulness of the notion of speech acts in literary pragmatics, analyzes some literary genres and proposes a discourse typology containing eight generic categories that reflect the possible links between factual and fictional discourses. In doing so, it offers a response to a question raised many years ago by a literary theorist that is directed to speech act theorists

Context (archaeology) · Figure of speech · Indirect speech · Linguistic typology · Linguistics · Metaphor · Pragmatics · Sociology · Speech act · Typology · History · Media Influence and Health · Media Studies and Communication · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Philosophy

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