The language of fiction / edited by Emar Maier and Andreas Stokke.

Contributor Maier, Emar, editor.

Edition Statement:First edition.

ImprintOxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Descriptionix, 403 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Note:Introduction / Emar Maier and Andreas Stokke -- I. TRUTH, REFERENCE, AND IMAGINATION -- Fictional reference as simulation / François Recanati -- Sharing real and fictional reference / Hans Kamp -- Fictional truth: In defense of the Reality Principle / Nils Franzén -- On the generation of content / Sandro Zucchi -- Do the imaginings that fictions invite have a direction of fit? / Manuel García-Carpintero -- II. STORYTELLING -- In search of the narrator / Regine Eckardt -- Extracting fictional truth from unreliable sources / Emar Maier and Merel Semeijn -- Narrative and point of view / Samuel Cumming -- A puzzle about narrative progression and causal reasoning / Daniel Altshuler -- Isomorphic mapping in fictional interpretation / Matthias Bauer and Sigrid Beck -- III. PERSPECTIVE SHIFT -- Metalinguistic acts in fiction / Nellie Wieland -- Computing perspective shift in narratives / Márta Abrusán -- Derogatory terms in free indirect discourse / Isidora Stojanovic -- Protagonist projection, character focus, and mixed quotation / Andreas Stokke.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:This volume brings together new research on fiction from the fields of philosophy and linguistics. Following a detailed introduction to the field, the book's chapters examine long-standing issues in fiction research from a perspective that is informed both by philosophy and linguistic theory.

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