Sentence examples for fictional discourse from inspiring English sources

Writing within the tradition of the novel of education, these daughters of Protestant clergymen fashion a fictional discourse posed to explore the liabilities and liberties of a narrative realism that privileges the marriage plot, psychological portraiture, and vocation.

For a criticism of the free-logical approach to fictional discourse, see Woods 1974 68 911974 68 91

By "fictional discourse" we mean here and in what follows discourse about fictitious objects.

The problem is that obviously true sentences of fictional discourse seem to lead into outright contradictions.

For instance, there is no claim here that mathematical discourse is a kind of fictional discourse.

Following later Wittgenstein, however, he sees no need to go beyond describing the "language game" we play in our fictional discourse and dismisses all metaphysical theorizing.

It also investigates the place of fiction and narrative form in non-fictional discourses that are usually placed outside the realm of literature.

Thus free logic may play a role in reasoning that mixes fictional and literal discourse.

How do readers distinguish factual from fictional representations and discourses, and what is at stake in this separation?

Take the case of discourse about fictional characters.

It begins with an excellent and accessible account of fiction (Part 1) which is used to dissect the pretensions of postmodernist literary theory most especially the tendency (as the authors see it) to regard all discourses as fictional (Part 2).