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Pejorative Discourse Is Not Fictional [PDF]
Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 2017 Hom and May (2015) argue that pejoratives mean negative prescriptive properties that externally depend on social ideologies, and that this entails a form of fictionalism: pejoratives have null extensions. There are relevant uses of fictional terms that are necessary to describe the content of fictions, and to make true statements about the world, that ...
Teresa Marques, null null
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Predelli on Fictional Discourse [PDF]
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2021 AbstractJohn Searle argues that (literary) fictions are constituted by mere pretense—by the simulation of representational activities like assertions, without any further representational aim. They are not the result of sui generis, dedicated speech acts of a specific kind, on a par with assertion.
García-Carpintero, Manuel
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‘Space’ Interpretation in Contemporary English Fictional Discourse: Female Perspective
Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2016 The article reveals the set of transformations that the space being a vital element of the fictional discourse structure undergoes being introduced into the narration by the modern female authors (S. Townsend, C. Alliott, K. Swan, E. Gilbert).
Anna I. Dzyubenko
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Oriental Studies, 2023 Introduction. The study examines some theoretical aspects and outlines practical approaches to the analysis of emotive density and its suggestiveness in contemporary Chinese fictional discourse.
Alexander V. Ignatenko
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Genetic Bragging as a Speech Act: From Fictional to Non-fictional Discourse
Lingue Culture Mediazioni, 2018 The fast and consistent progress in DNA research has lead us to vent the possibility that bragging about one’s own genetic endowment is bound to become a linguistic practice with economic and social entailments.
Sergio Pizziconi +2 more
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Singular Reference in Fictional Discourse? [PDF]
Disputatio, 2019 Abstract Singular terms used in fictions for fictional characters raise well-known philosophical issues, explored in depth in the literature. But philosophers typically assume that names already in use to refer to “moderatesized specimens of dry goods” cause no special problem when occurring in fictions, behaving ...
García-Carpintero, Manuel
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Fictional names and fictional discourse [PDF]
, 2017 [eng] In this dissertation I present a critical study of fiction, focusing on the semantics of fictional names and fictional discourse. I am concerned with the issue of whether fictional names need to refer, and also with the related issue of whether fictional characters need to exist, in order to best account for our linguistic practices involving ...
Panizza, Chiara
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Principia: An International Journal of EpistemologySerious discourse is regularly opposed to fictional discourse. But what is serious discourse? Fictional discourse is ubiquitous and raises challenging questions to philosophical semantics. How to define serious discourse in a non-circular way?
André Leclerc
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On the Issue of Concept «Freedom» Objectivization in Contemporary English Female Fictional Discourse
Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2019 Anna I. Dzyubenko (Rostov-on-Don. Russian Federation) The article offers an analysis of contemporary English-language fictional discourse created by famous authors K. Swan, E. Gilbert and S.
Анна Игоревна Дзюбенко
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Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2014 The article deals with the study of comparative analysis of actualisation peculiarities of the concept ‘iskusstvo’/‘art’ in fictional discourse in the Russian and English languages of XIX-XX centuries.
N V Ban’kova
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