Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 30 - Philosophy
- Output identifier
- 2342013
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1093/oso/9780198854128.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- ISBN
- 9780198854128
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 192-page monograph is the product of over two years of research and writing on the philosophical and linguistic interpretation of works of fiction. It draws on this work to propose a new philosophical theory, ‘Radical Fictionalist Semantics’. The research makes use of and combines approaches from philosophy of language, linguistics, and literary theory. Throughout the book, elements of Radical Fictionalist Semantics are applied through close study of seven key literary works. Please see Research Information box for material developed from Proper Names (chapter 8), also submitted here.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Many of the ideas developed in this monograph (Fictional Discourse) build on Chapter 8 of Proper Names (2017), also submitted. The material presented here is substantially new, in that it takes ideas sketched briefly in the 2017 book, and develops them into a monograph-length treatment. Accordingly, we ask that chapter 8 of Proper Names be ignored, with chapters 1–7 only of Proper Names read.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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