{"product_id":"fictional-discourse-a-radical-fictionalist-semantics-hardcover","title":"Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStefano Predelli\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics\u003c\/em\u003e combines the insight of linguistic and philosophical semantics with the study of fictional language. Its central idea is familiar to anyone exposed to the ways of narrative fiction, namely the notion of a fictional teller. Starting with premises having to do with fictional names such as 'Holmes' or 'Emma', Stefano Predelli develops Radical Fictionalism, a theory that is subsequently applied to central themes in the analysis of fiction. Among other things, he discusses the distinction between storyworlds and narrative peripheries, the relationships between homodiegetic and heterodiegetic narrative, narrative time, unreliability, and closure. The final chapters extend Radical Fictionalism to critical discourse, as Predelli introduces the ideas of critical and biased retelling, and pauses on the relationships between Radical Fictionalism and talk about literary characters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStefano Predelli, \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Nottingham\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStefano Predelli completed his doctoral studies at UCLA in 1991, with a dissertation on indexicals supervised by David Kaplan. He then moved to Norway, where he taught for a few years at the University of Oslo. He is currently a professor at the University of Nottingham. His previous publications include \u003cem\u003eContexts: Meaning, Truth, and the Use of Language\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford 2005), \u003cem\u003eMeaning without Truth\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford 2013), and \u003cem\u003eProper Names\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford 2017).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.6 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 04, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42710543204415,"sku":"9780198854128","price":205.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/1d91a0726d171c683b86336a47eb7eaa.webp?v=1765055298","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/fictional-discourse-a-radical-fictionalist-semantics-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}