A contextual theory of fictional names

IF 1.8 2区文学 N/A LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Intercultural Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-05-15 DOI:10.1515/ip-2024-3003

Gaetano Fiorin, D. Delfitto

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Abstract

We review some of the most prominent challenges in the semantics and pragmatics of fictional names and propose a pragmatic theory of fictional names whereby understanding a fictional name requires imagining possible contexts of interpretation of the name. Similarly to other pragmatic approaches to fiction and fictional contexts, we maintain that fictional texts require that the interpreter engages in a game of pretense of sort and are, therefore, prescriptions to imagine a state of affairs that is not the real one. In contrast to these approaches, however, we propose that interpreting a fictional text does not require imagining a set of possible state of affairs where the text would be true but, rather, requires imagining a set of possible contexts where the text would be meaningful. In order to apply this framework to fictional names, we adopt a contextual theory of proper names, which we have proposed and defended in previous work.

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虚构地名的语境理论

我们回顾了虚构名称的语义学和语用学中一些最突出的挑战，并提出了虚构名称的语用学理论，即理解一个虚构名称需要想象解释该名称的可能语境。与其他研究虚构和虚构语境的语用学方法类似，我们认为虚构文本要求解释者参与一种伪装游戏，因此，虚构文本是想象一种非真实状态的处方。然而，与这些方法不同的是，我们提出，解释虚构文本并不需要想象一系列可能的事态，在这些事态中，文本是真实的，而是需要想象一系列可能的语境，在这些语境中，文本是有意义的。为了将这一框架应用于虚构名称，我们采用了专有名称的语境理论，我们在之前的工作中已经提出并捍卫了这一理论。

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Intercultural Pragmatics Multiple-

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3.10

自引率

36.40%

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期刊介绍： Intercultural Pragmatics is a fully peer-reviewed forum for theoretical and applied pragmatics research. The goal of the journal is to promote the development and understanding of pragmatic theory and intercultural competence by publishing research that focuses on general theoretical issues, more than one language and culture, or varieties of one language. Intercultural Pragmatics encourages ‘interculturality’ both within the discipline and in pragmatic research. It supports interaction and scholarly debate between researchers representing different subfields of pragmatics including the linguistic, cognitive, social, and interlanguage paradigms. The intercultural perspective is relevant not only to each line of research within pragmatics but also extends to several other disciplines such as anthropology, theoretical and applied linguistics, psychology, communication, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, and bi- and multilingualism. Intercultural Pragmatics makes a special effort to cross disciplinary boundaries. What we primarily look for is innovative approaches and ideas that do not always fit into existing paradigms, and lead to new ways of thinking about language. Intercultural Pragmatics has always encouraged the publication of theoretical papers including linguistic and philosophical pragmatics that are very important for research in intercultural pragmatics.