We seem t o approach a text that we know to be a work of fic tion rather differently than a newspaper article, or a conversation about the weather. An influentia l view in philosophy is that fictional narratives are prescriptions for the reader to imagine some f ictional world, while regular assertions are propo sals to update the common ground. But whatever the eventual diagnosis, the (apparent) difference bet ween the interpretation of fiction and of non-fict ion already raises interesting linguistic question s: How does a reader even know that a text is fict ion? Are there linguistic clues an author may leav e that mark a given text as such? And is our forma l semantic toolkit, developed for dealing with ass ertions in every day communication, suitable and s ufficient for dealing with the peculiarities of na rrative fiction and literary style?
\n\nIn this workshop we want to bring together linguists and philosophers interested in applying formal se mantic tools to linguistic phenomena characteristi c of fiction/narrative.
\nWe invite submissions of anonymous two-page abstracts (including references etc.) for 25 minute talks ( plus 10 minutes discussion), on or before May 25, via Easychair. With enough high quality submission s we'll also organize a poster session with lightn ing talks.
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