WALSH, KORT FORTALT

Rolf Reitan

doi:10.7146/kok.v41i115.15874

WALSH, KORT FORTALT

Authors

Rolf Reitan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/kok.v41i115.15874

Keywords:

Fiction, fictionality, rhetoric, narratology, pragmatics, relevance, implicature, speech acts, cognition, reference, communication

Abstract

RICHARD WALSH: A CONTEXTUAL EXPOSITION OF BASIC TENETS | This essay is an attempt to reconstruct the logical structure of Walsh’s argument in “The pragmatics of fictionality” (Chapter 1 of The Rhetoric of Fictionality). Its main focus is on the implications of Walsh’s criticism of Fictional Worlds Theory and the issue of fictional reference, and on the relation between the rhetoric of fictionality and narratology.