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Pronouns in Literary Fiction as Inventive Discourse
2018This chapter approaches the question of pronouns from a rhetorical perspective, focusing on literary fiction as inventive discourse. Standard models of pronouns, especially linguistic ones, are based on non-inventive language uses. In the rhetorical approach, it becomes evident that parts of the grammar of literary fiction work differently from non ...
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Non-Fictional Discourses and the Novel
2018This chapter looks at how readers of eighteenth-century British fiction seem to have possessed less carefully policed divisions between fact and fiction. It speculates that their credulity was more flexible than that of current critics and readers. Into the 1750s and beyond, many narratives that were obviously fictional featured titles or subtitles ...
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Fictionalizing scenarios in political discourse
2018This chapter shows how political discourse uses covert fictional construals to persuade audiences. It argues that the use of specific linguistic and conceptual strategies guides their interpretive processes to a point where the distinction between reality and fiction becomes unclear.
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Figures of discourse in prose fiction
Frontiers of Narrative StudiesAbstract The essay demonstrates the relationship between specific figures of discourse dominant in particular novels and the thematic concerns or plot patterns of each individual novel. The figures discussed are (1) enthymeme, prominent in Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and important also in Joyce’s Ulysses; (2) hypallage, part of the
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The logical status of fictional discourse
1979BELIEVE THAT speaking or writing in a language consists in performing speech acts of a quite specific kind called "illocutionary acts." These include making statements, asking questions, giving orders, making promises, apologizing, thanking, and so on. I also believe that there is a systematic set of relationships between the meanings of the words and ...
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Social fiction and the discrediting of discourse
2018Arendt rappelle que la société est un objet théorique inventé et doté d’un principe d’unité imaginaire, tel que la main invisible ou le contrat social dont le principal défaut est d’ignorer que les humains sont des êtres parlants. Ces fictions qui ne sont en elles-mêmes que des procédés de théoricien deviennent problématiques quand elles sont prises ...
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