The ontological thesis might be held by someone who holds that we are better off simply abandoning or rejecting the target discourse, and that is not a distinctively fictionalist thesis.
Another reply — related to the distinctions drawn in section 2.4 — is that there are variants of fictionalism that do not claim there to be a close analogy between the target discourse on the one hand and fiction and make-believe on the other.
In the 34 target discourses, the second sentence regularly began with a third person pronoun prompt, which in principle could be interpreted as referring to either of the two noun phrase referents in the preceding sentence, or possibly some other unmentioned individual, as illustrated in examples 4a b.
In addition, because only four of Roever's 12 items targeted implicatures conveyed through fixed discourse patterns (Dis) or conventionalized linguistic forms (Lin), more items are needed to represent these two implicature types.
The findings suggest that, in the UK, the broad discourse centres around government policies, which have a significant impact upon how employability discourse is presented and targeted preparation for employment, namely through career management and bolted-on activities.
The applicability and the relevance of ELSI-issues to the discourse on personal genome testing will fluctuate with the analytical and clinical validity of genetic profiles, with their clinical utility and with their being targeted or non-targeted.
In many European countries, anti-cosmopolitan discourses target the stateless, the undocumented and economic refugees (the "bad" migrants).
For Coetzee, the result reflected a debasement of Britain's political culture: the traducing, with media complicity, of rational discourse by a leave campaign that targeted the very idea of factual argument.
But McEvilley's task of routing out ethnocentric practice in art exhibitions and discourse is subject to far more obstruction than was his more contained confrontation with Greenberg's universal aesthetic, for this time around the prejudice targeted exists on an international scale and at every level of discourse.
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
