Plan of the talk Unofficial common ground accounts (Stokke, 2013; Eckardt, 2014) Metafictive statements Workspace account Further research

Unofficial common ground Harry Potter Unofficial C LOTR Sherlock Holmes C = <C0, C1, … , Cn> Unofficial common ground – Metafictive statements – Workspace account – Further research

Unofficial common ground Harry Potter Unofficial C LOTR Sherlock Holmes Assertions: C +A p = <C0*p, C1, … ,Cn> ? C0∪{p} Unofficial common ground – Metafictive statements – Workspace account – Further research

Unofficial common ground Pride and Prejudice Official C Harry Potter Unofficial C LOTR Sherlock Holmes Fiction: C +F,i p = { <C0, C1, … , Ci-1, Ci*p, Ci+1, … , Cn>, if 1 ≤ i ≤ n, <C0, C1, … , Cn, CBASE*p>, otherwise ? Unofficial common ground – Metafictive statements – Workspace account – Further research

Metafictive statements “Fictional statements” (Currie, 1990) Frodo had a very trying time that afternoon (The Lord of the Rings) “Metafictive statements” (Currie, 1990) A: Frodo was adopted by his uncle B: Actually, Bilbo is Frodo’s cousin Unofficial common ground – Metafictive statements – Workspace account – Further research

Metafictive statements: temporality Conflicting intuitions: 1. The acceptance of fictional truths is temporary 2. We retain information about fictional content after engaging with narrative “[A]n unofficial common ground need not be temporary in the sense of lasting a short time. There are arguably [unofficial] common grounds [that] continue to be operative for a very long time” (Stokke, 2013:55) C HP Unofficial LOTR SH P&P

Metafictive statements: truth-values Recanati (2002), Evans (1982), Walton (1990), Stokke (2013), Eckardt (2014)? The Lord of the Rings-pretense Truth-valueless Currie (1990) (In The Lord of the Rings,) Bilbo is Frodo’s cousin. True or false depending on actual world

C W Workspace account <C, W> + p = <C, W*p> Official C Official C <C, W> + p = <C, W*p> Matravers (2014) Unofficial common ground – Metafictive statements – Workspace account – Further research

Workspace account Assertive closure: <C, W>  <W, W> W C Official C Assertive closure: <C, W>  <W, W> Unofficial common ground – Metafictive statements – Workspace account – Further research

Workspace account W C □­­i Workspace Official Fictivei closure: <C, W>  <C∪{□­­i(⋂W)}, C∪{□­­i (⋂W)}> Lewisian In fiction i-operator: □­­i Unofficial common ground – Metafictive statements – Workspace account – Further research

C Workspace account □­­i □­j □­h □­­k W Official Unofficial common ground – Metafictive statements – Workspace account – Further research

Metafictive statements Workspace account Fictional statements W C □­­i Workspace Official Metafictive statements Official C W □­­i W □­­i W □­­i <C, W> + □­­iq = <C, W*□­­iq> <C, W>  <W, W> Unofficial common ground – Metafictive statements – Workspace account – Further research

Conclusions Further research Nature of * Nature of CBASE Lies and bald-faced lies Picking up where we left of Unofficial common ground accounts do not adequately model metafictive discourse Workspace account: - uniform workspace update - assertive and fictive closure Unofficial common ground – Metafictive statements – Workspace account – Further research

Picking up where we left of “Gollum […] held aloft the ring” □­­k □­j □­­i Official C □­h W W Unofficial common ground – Metafictive statements – Workspace account – Further research