El discurso de la ficción en la teoría de los actos de habla: Un acercamiento desde John Searle

Abstract

The contribution from the Speech Acts Theory of Searle to the fictional discourse is examined in this work. We accept that the meanings of linguistic statements used during a real discourse are the same meanings determining and establishing rules on the understanding between the author and the reader in the fictional discourse. According to this, a successful and creative communication by a fictional-work author is only made when he uses linguistic statements that follow the meanings of the words and linguistic conventions established in a real discourse. In order to make this idea convincing, in the first place, the concept of pretending and the concept of lying are contrasted through the analysis of the speech acts theory of Austin and Searle. In the second place, the features of the pretending act are questioned to show an examination of the fictional discourse beginning with the Speech theory and its acceptability. In the third place, analyze how the discourse of fiction does derogate from the rules for performing speech acts. Our conclusion is that by contrasting the serious utterances against the fictional utterances by the work of Carroll was a relevant issue that made possible the expansion of the understanding of how it is possible to create a literal speech acts in fictional works.

Keywords:

Actos de habla

convenciones horizontales e imaginación

ficción

intencionalidad

simular

Speech acts

horizontal convention and imagination

fiction

intentionality

pretending

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