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- Title
Fictional force.
- Authors
Stokke, Andreas
- Abstract
This paper argues for an account of fictional force, the central characteristic of the kind of non-assertoric speech act that authors of fictions are engaged in. A distinction is drawn between what is true in a fiction and the fictional record comprising what the audience has been told. The papers argues that to utter a sentence with fictional force is to intend that its content be added to a fictional record. It is shown that this view accounts for phenomena such as conversational implicatures in fictional discourse. Moreover, the view is seen to provide an attractive way of distinguishing fictional utterances from assertoric utterances. As a consequence, this account of fictional force offers a satisfactory way of distinguishing fiction from lying.
- Subjects
SPEECH acts (Linguistics); FICTION; DISCOURSE; ASSERTION (Linguistics); SENTENCES (Grammar)
- Publication
Philosophical Studies, 2023, Vol 180, Issue 10/11, p3099
- ISSN
0031-8116
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11098-023-02035-0