Lying and Fiction

In Meibauer Jörg (ed.), Handbook of Lying. Oxford University Press (forthcoming)
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Abstract

Lying and fiction both involve the deliberate production of statements that fail to obey Grice’s first Maxim of Quality (“do not say what you believe to be false”). The question thus arises if we can provide a uniform analysis for fiction and lies. In this chapter I discuss the similarities, but also some fundamental differences between lying and fiction. I argue that there’s little hope for a satisfying account within a traditional truth conditional semantic framework. Rather than immediately moving to a fully pragmatic analysis involving distinct speech acts of fiction-making and lying, I will first explore how far we get with the assumption that both are simply assertions, analyzed in a Stalnakerian framework, i.e. as proposals to update the common ground.

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reprint Maier, Emar (2018) "Lying and Fiction". In Meibauer, Jörg, The Oxford Handbook of Lying, pp. 303-314: Oxford Handbooks (2018)

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Emar Maier
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