Fictional DiscoursePub Date : 2020-02-05DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198854128.003.0003
S. Predelli
{"title":"The Sign of Four","authors":"S. Predelli","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198854128.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198854128.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 2 lays down the general traits of the Radical Fictionalist analysis of fiction, focusing on the case of homodiegetic narrative. In particular, this chapter stresses the distinction between empty names and fictional names, it explains the role of impartations in fictional discourse, and it motivates the primacy of fictional tellers for a Radical Fictionalist take on fiction. Radical Fictionalism is then compared with some alternative views on the semantics of fictional discourse, with particular attention to Pragmatic Millianism and to theories of semantic ascent. The final sections pause on the Radical Fictionalist approach to speech acts in fiction, and they criticize the idea of a dedicated illocutionary force of fiction-making.","PeriodicalId":243336,"journal":{"name":"Fictional Discourse","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133913843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fictional DiscoursePub Date : 2020-02-05DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198854128.003.0002
S. Predelli
{"title":"Preliminaries","authors":"S. Predelli","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198854128.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198854128.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 1 puts forth some preliminary considerations about our actual (that is, not fictional) use of language. In particular, it motivates the relevance of singular terms for the Radical Fictionalist approach to fiction, it sketches a picture of the semantics of proper names, and it discusses the ideas of empty names and gappy propositions. This chapter also explains some of the terminology employed in what follows, in particular the distinction between fully-fledged expressions (such as proper names) and expression-types (such as mere name-types). The final section focuses on the contentful effects achieved by the use of language and introduces the idea of impartation, one of the central concepts in the Radical Fictionalist approach to fiction.","PeriodicalId":243336,"journal":{"name":"Fictional Discourse","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132084719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fictional DiscoursePub Date : 2020-02-05DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198854128.003.0005
S. Predelli
{"title":"Cat’s Cradle","authors":"S. Predelli","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198854128.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198854128.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter extends the Radical Fictionalist take on peripheries and storyworlds with an introduction to the idea of peripheral importation, paying particular attention to the peripheral importation of actual semantic regularities. The chapter continues with a discussion of the repercussion of Radical Fictionalism for fictional co-reference and translation, with a focus on reported speech and on the translation of fictional proper names. At the end of the chapter, one starred section is devoted to so-called real names in fiction, with a negotiable commitment to the importation of the (presumed) actual metaphysical properties of words. A second starred section is concerned with the idea of fictional languages, as in Burgess’ Nadsat or Vonnegut’s Bokoninish.","PeriodicalId":243336,"journal":{"name":"Fictional Discourse","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124490829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fictional DiscoursePub Date : 2020-02-05DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198854128.003.0008
S. Predelli
{"title":"The Turn of the Screw","authors":"S. Predelli","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198854128.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198854128.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter proposes a Radical Fictionalist analysis of critical discourse. In particular, it contrasts actuality-concerned modes of criticism directed towards educated naturalization with two different, non-propositional enterprises. One is a form of critical retelling aimed at bringing to the foreground certain allegedly important but not obvious features of the storyworld. Accordingly, this chapter discusses the idea of underreading and the critics’ commitment to faithfulness, paying particular attention to examples from the critical literature on Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw. The other type of critical retelling is a form of biased retelling which abandons faithfulness in favour of canonicity, that is, in favour of retellings consonant with the critical canon.","PeriodicalId":243336,"journal":{"name":"Fictional Discourse","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132711335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fictional DiscoursePub Date : 2020-02-05DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198854128.003.0010
S. Predelli
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"S. Predelli","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198854128.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198854128.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"This conclusion wraps up the discussion of Radical Fictionalism with a brief summary of the ideas discussed throughout the book. It rehearses the main tenets of Radical Fictionalism and their consequences for fictional discourse, such as the distinction between homodiegetic and heterodiegetic narratives, the fictional divide between storyworlds and peripheries, and the Radical Fictionalist takes on prefixed discourse. It continues with a summary of the consequences of Radical Fictionalism for a variety of themes from narrative fiction, such as inconsistency, unreliability, importation, nesting, and the different modes of critical discourse. This conclusion ends with a brief allusion to certain independently open semantic and philosophical issues.","PeriodicalId":243336,"journal":{"name":"Fictional Discourse","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126077620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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