The language of fiction / edited by Emar Maier, Andreas Stokke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maier, Emar, editor.

Stokke, Andreas, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Language and languages--Style.

Language and languages.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This volume brings together new research on fiction from the fields of philosophy and linguistics. Following a detailed introduction to the field, the book's 14 chapters examine long-standing issues in fiction research from a perspective that is informed both by philosophy and linguistic theory.

Contents:

Cover

The Language of Fiction

Copyright

Contents

List of contributors

1: Introduction

1.1 Truth, reference, and imagination

1.2 Storytelling

1.3 Perspective shift

References

PART I: TRUTH, REFERENCE, AND IMAGINATION

2: Fictional reference as simulation

2.1 Fictional names and their uses

2.1.1 Matravers against the simulation view

2.2 Force cancellation

2.3 Parafictional statements: a problem for the simulation approach

2.4 Exemplifying pretence for demonstrative purposes

2.5 Conclusion

Acknowledgements

3: Sharing real and fictional reference

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Representing attitudes in MSDRT

3.3 Entity Representations

3.3.1 Representing entities as distinct from representing propositional content

3.3.2 Types of anchors and absence of anchors

3.3.3 Singular content

3.3.4 Causal chains and ER networks

3.3.5 Named ERs and referring by name

3.3.6 Learning names from introductions and from texts

3.3.7 ER networks are graphs

3.3.8 Communicating about entities in their absence

3.4 Names in fiction

3.4.1 Representing fictional content as part of mental states

3.4.2 Taking for granted: a modification of ADF and MSDRT

3.4.3 Back to the representation of fiction

3.4.4 Fiction protagonists vs. fictional characters

3.4.5 Fictional character semantics

3.4.5.1 Mixing bits of in-the-story statements and meta-fiction

3.5 Conclusion

4: Fictional truth: In defense of the Reality Principle

4.1 Background

4.2 The Reality Principle

4.3 Hypothesis

4.4 Primary story truths and interpretation

4.5 Unreliable narration

4.6 Genre considerations

4.7 Impossible fictions

4.8 Beyond the author

4.9 Conclusion

5: On the generation of content.

5.1 The zero option

5.2 Implicit content

5.3 The proposal

5.3.1 A semi-informal statement

5.3.2 A more formal statement

5.3.2.1 Truth in context

5.3.2.2 Context of engagement

5.3.2.3 The content of media

5.3.2.4 Semantics for according to

5.3.2.5 Back to Robinson Crusoe

5.4 Probing the proposal

5.4.1 Accidental reference

5.4.2 The unorthodox author

5.4.3 Conventions

5.4.4 Unreliable narrators

5.5 Extraneous truths

5.6 Final remarks

Acknowledgments

6: Do the imaginings that fictions invite have a direction of fit?

6.1 Introduction: direction of fit and fiction-making imaginative requirements

6.2 Fictional worlds

6.3 Direction of fit

6.4 Direction of fit for F-imaginings

6.5 Conclusion

PART II: STORYTELLING

7: In search of the narrator

7.1 Aims and questions

7.2 A typology of stories

7.3 Context and subjective interpretation

7.3.1 Context in static semantics

7.3.2 Diagonalization: good, but not good enough

7.3.3 Subjective meanings as summation over contexts

7.4 Dynamic semantics light

7.4.1 The basic ideas

7.4.2 Dynamic meaning and summation over contexts

7.5 Reading fiction

7.6 Introducing vs. referring to the speaker

7.6.1 Speaker-denoting terms are anaphors

7.6.2 Narrator accommodation vs. reference to narrators

7.7 Unreliable narrators and stories in humanless worlds

7.8 Summary

8: Extracting fictional truth from unreliable sources

8.1 Introduction

8.2 A framework for interpreting fiction and non-fiction

8.2.1 DRT

8.2.2 Quarantining fiction

8.2.3 The workspace account

8.2.4 Example: non-fiction

8.2.5 Example: fiction

8.2.6 Fictive openings and the role of genre

8.3 Fiction updates and belief revision.

8.3.1 Introducing belief revision

8.3.2 Belief revision in the DRT workspace

8.3.3 Cautious update

8.4 Interpreting fiction

8.4.1 Authorial Authority revisited: face-value interpretation by shielding

8.4.2 Unreliable narrators

8.4.3 Imaginative resistance

8.4.3.1 Face-value interpretation

8.4.3.2 Non-face-value interpretations through cautious update

8.5 Conclusion

9: Narrative and point of view

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Narration

9.3 Free indirect discourse

9.4 Point of view and temporal progression

9.5 Enter aspect

9.6 Two kinds of rhetorical relation

9.7 A foray into discourse structure

9.8 Last redoubt

9.9 Final accounting

9.10 The nonexistence of states

9.11 Conclusion

10: A puzzle about narrative progression and causal reasoning

10.1 Introduction

10.2 The puzzle

10.3 Defining RESULT and EXPLANATION

10.4 RESULT vs. BACKGROUND and ELABORATION

10.4.1 RESULT triggers

10.4.2 Narrative progression with ELABORATION

10.4.3 A brief note on perspectival expressions

10.5 Conclusion

11: Isomorphic mapping in fictional interpretation

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Bauer and Beck (2014) on fictional speech acts

11.3 Constructing the relation R

11.3.1 The idea: an isomorphic mapping

11.3.2 Application to examples

11.3.2.1 Practicing with the fable

11.3.2.2 "You said that I 'was Great'"

11.3.2.3 "My Life had stood"

11.3.3 Generalizing over the examples

11.3.3.1 Not just allegory

11.3.3.2 More complex and multiple mappings

11.3.3.3 What is preserved in the mapping

11.4 Summary and outlook

11.4.1 Summary

11.4.2 Outlook: future work

Appendix A: Formal Definitions

Appendix B: Emily Dickinson

References.

PART III: PERSPECTIVE SHIFT

12: Metalinguistic acts in fiction

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Functions of metalinguistic acts

12.2.1 Secondary narration

12.2.2 Narrative perspective

12.2.3 Narrative divergence

12.3 Cross-quoting

12.3.1 Varieties

12.3.2 Trans-world quotation

12.3.3 Single-world quotation and a modified Reality Assumption

12.3.4 Misquoting

12.4 Fiction and nonfiction

12.4.1 Imagination and make-believe

12.4.2 Fact and fiction

12.5 Conclusion

13: Computing perspective shift in narratives

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Wiebe's (1990, 1994) algorithm

13.2.1 The Feature Set

13.2.2 The Context

13.2.3 The Interpretation

13.2.4 An example

13.2.5 Tests of Wiebe's (1994) algorithm

13.2.6 Later work on probabilistic classifiers for POV

13.3 Hinterwimmer (2019): prominent protagonists

13.4 Rhetorical relations and FID

13.4.1 Empirical observations

13.4.2 Summary of the empirical observations

13.5 Putting it all together: toward a framework

13.5.1 Background on SDRT and MSDRT/ADT

13.5.2 A sketch of a proposal

13.5.3 Topicality vs. rhetorical structure

13.6 Conclusion

14: Derogatory terms in free indirect discourse

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Pejoratives in free indirect discourse

14.2.1 Corpus-drawn examples of pejoratives in FID

14.2.2 Broadening the spectrum of shifted uses of pejoratives

14.3 Slurs in free indirect discourse

14.3.1 Protagonists, narrators, and authors

14.3.2 Corpus-drawn examples of slurs in FID

14.4 Discussion

14.4.1 The two-context approach and the mixed-quotation approach

14.4.2 Back to pejoratives

14.4.3 Back to slurs

14.4.3.1 Hyper-projectivity and complicity

14.4.3.2 A second attempt

Resource texts

15: Protagonist projection, character focus, and mixed quotation

15.1 Introduction

15.2 Protagonist projection and character focus

15.2.1 Protagonist projection and belief attribution

15.2.2 Protagonist projection and metarepresentation

15.2.3 Character focus and perspective shifting

15.2.4 Character focus and free indirect discourse

15.3 Mixed quotation

15.3.1 Use and mention

15.3.2 The primary and secondary dimensions

15.4 Applications

15.4.1 Protagonist projection and two-dimensionality

15.4.2 Modalizing the use component

15.4.3 Unidentified metarepresentation

15.4.4 Character focus and two-dimensionality

15.5 Motivations and problems

15.5.1 Truth conditions and projection

15.5.2 Denotations and the mention component

15.5.3 Perspective shifting without metarepresentation?

15.6 Conclusion

Language of Fiction Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780191881534

0191881538

9780192585356

0192585355

OCLC:

1272997826