Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics - Couverture rigide

Predelli, Stefano

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ISBN 10 : 0198854129 ISBN 13 : 9780198854128

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics combines the insight of linguistic and philosophical semantics with the study of fictional language. Its central idea is familiar to anyone exposed to the ways of narrative fiction, namely the notion of a fictional teller. Starting with premises having to do with fictional names such as 'Holmes' or 'Emma', Stefano Predelli develops Radical Fictionalism, a theory that is subsequently applied to central themes in the analysis of fiction. Among other things, he discusses the distinction between storyworlds and narrative peripheries, the relationships between homodiegetic and heterodiegetic narrative, narrative time, unreliability, and closure. The final chapters extend Radical Fictionalism to critical discourse, as Predelli introduces the ideas of critical and biased retelling, and pauses on the relationships between Radical Fictionalism and talk about literary characters.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198854129
• ISBN 13: 9780198854128
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 194
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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