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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together new research on fiction from the fields of philosophy and linguistics. Fiction has long been a topic of interest in philosophy, but recent years have also seen a surge in work on fictional discourse at the intersection between linguistics and philosophy of language. In particular, there has been a growing interest in examining long-standing issues concerning fiction from a perspective that is informed both by philosophy and linguistic theory. Following a detailed introduction by the editors, The Language of Fiction contains 14 chapters by leading scholars in linguistics and philosophy, organized into three parts. Part I, ''Truth, Reference, and Imagination'', offers new, interdisciplinary perspectives on some of the central themes from the philosophy of fiction: What is fictional truth? How do fictional names refer? What kind of speech act is involved in telling a fictional story? What is the relation between fiction and imagination? Part II, ''Storytelling'
Trade ReviewSome essays may appeal to scholars across discipline; among these are Isidora Stojanovic's "Derogatory Terms in Free Indirect Discourse" (chapter 14), which discusses the "complicity" effect of slurs and mixed-quotation and two-context approaches for understanding this phenomenon in specifically literary texts. But most essays are principally interested in exploring theoretical paradigms of fictional discourse through the idiom and methodologies of linguistics and philosophy of language. This collection will find its readers among advanced scholars in those fields. * H. L. Pennington, CHOICE *
Table of Contents1: Emar Maier and Andreas Stokke: Introduction Part I: Truth, Reference, and Imagination 2: François Recanati: Fictional reference as simulation 3: Hans Kamp: Sharing real and fictional reference 4: Nils Franzén: Fictional truth: In defense of the reality principle 5: Sandro Zucchi: On the generation of content 6: Manuel García-Carpintero: Do the imaginings that fictions invite have a direction of fit? Part II: Storytelling 7: Regine Eckardt: In search of the narrator 8: Emar Maier and Merel Semeijn: Extracting fictional truth from unreliable sources 9: Samuel Cumming: Narrative and point-of-view 10: Daniel Altshuler: A puzzle about narrative progression and causal reasoning 11: Matthias Bauer and Sigrid Beck: Isomorphic mapping in fictional interpretation Part III: Perspective Shift 12: Nellie Wieland: Metalinguistic acts in fiction 13: Márta Abrusán: Computing perspective shift in narratives 14: Isidora Stojanovic: Derogatory terms in free indirect discourse 15: Andreas Stokke: Protagonist projection, character-focus, and mixed quotation
