33.776, Books: The Language of Fiction: Maier, Stokke (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 08:46:05
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: The Language of Fiction: Maier, Stokke (eds.)

 


Title: The Language of Fiction 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-language-of-fiction-9780198846376?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Editor: Emar Maier
Editor: Andreas Stokke

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198846376 Pages: 416 Price: U.S. $ 115


Abstract:

This 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',
deals with themes originating from the study of narrative: How do we infer a
coherent story from a sequence of event descriptions? And how do we interpret
the words of impersonal or unreliable narrators? Part III, 'Perspective
Shift', focuses on an alleged key characteristic of fictional narratives,
namely how we get access to the fictional characters' inner lives, through a
variety of literary techniques for representing what they say, think, or see.
The volume will be of interest to scholars from graduate level upwards in the
fields of discourse analysis, semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of
language, psychology, cognitive science, and literary studies.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature
                     Philosophy of Language


Written In: English  (eng)

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