Fictional Discourse - A Radical Fictionalist Semantics

Stefano Predelli presents a novel approach to fictional discourse: Radical Fictionalist Semantics. Combining the insight of linguistic and philosophical semantics with the study of fictional language, he discusses narrative time, unreliability, closure, and the distinction between storyworlds and narrative peripheries, among other topics.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Preliminaries


• 2: The Sign of Four: Fictional Tellers


• 3: Emma: The Narrative Periphery


• 4: Cat's Cradle: Peripheral Importations


• 5: An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge: From Our Point of View


• 6: Reflux and Bone Structure: Periphery and Interpretation


• 7: The Turn of the Screw: Critical Discourse


• 8: Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Literary Characters


• 9: Conclusion

About the author

Stefano Predelli completed his doctoral studies at UCLA in 1991, with a dissertation on indexicals supervised by David Kaplan. He then moved to Norway, where he taught for a few years at the University of Oslo. He is currently a professor at the University of Nottingham. His previous publications include Contexts: Meaning, Truth, and the Use of Language (Oxford 2005), Meaning without Truth (Oxford 2013), and Proper Names (Oxford 2017).

Summary

Stefano Predelli presents a novel approach to fictional discourse: Radical Fictionalist Semantics. Combining the insight of linguistic and philosophical semantics with the study of fictional language, he discusses narrative time, unreliability, closure, and the distinction between storyworlds and narrative peripheries, among other topics.

Product details

• Authors: Stefano Predelli, Stefano (Professor of Philosophy Predelli, Stefano (University of Nottingham) Predelli, Predelli Stefano
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9780198854128
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885412-8
• No. of pages: 194
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Philosophy of Language, Discourse Analysis, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Literary theory, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics & pragmatics